Evicted!: The Struggle for the Right to Vote

Evicted tells the story of the struggles of the Black people in Tennessee's Fayette County during the late 1950s and early 1960s to be able to register to vote without repercussions. Black people saw the importance of voting when a Black man was unjustly accused of murder and the lawyer defending him could not find many Black people to serve on the jury as few Black people were registered to vote. A movement began to register Black people to vote. Black sharecroppers were forced to leave their homes when they registered to vote. White businesses refused to serve Blacks who were registered to vote. Black people lost their teaching jobs when they registered to vote.

Something needed to be done. And this is that story.

A powerful story, beautifully told.