This black-and-white photograph features a portrait of a black family evicted from their home. The father (at left) and the mother (at right) stand before a tent with four children. The mother also cradles an infant in her arms.

Tent City Family: This family was evicted from their home for voting. Somerville, Fayette County, Tennessee, 1960

Ernest C. Withers, Published by Panopticon Press, Boston

1960; printed 1994

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