Tent City/Freedom City Geographies: Teaching Beyond the “Canon” of Civil Rights Movement Memory

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Figure 1. Woman and little girl on a cot in the dirt yard in front of the tent where they are living in Lowndes County, Alabama. Credit: Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Figure 2. Roosevelt Scott and his father prepare a holiday meal inside their family’s tent in Lowndes County, Alabama. Credit: Alabama Department of Archives and History.

Figure 3. The lyrics of and notes on the song “A Song about Tent City.”