A review by stacie_w_books
Evicted! by Alice Faye Duncan

challenging emotional informative reflective medium-paced

4.0

There’s a way to be honest, descriptive, and respectful to history while still telling a story that middle grade readers can understand, grasp and be affected by emotionally without being scarred. This is one of those books. To the point, delivering facts while making the story extremely relatable and being honest. Evicted is the story of Black people in the 1950s-1960s willing to give up their livelihoods and homes to vote. It’s a story that humanizes the Black struggle. It gives lives to thise in Fayatte County, TN who lived in tents when evicted from their homes because they dared to register to vote. 

In a time when the conversation is surrounding banning books for being honest about history and at time when gerrymandering is taking place across the US, Evicted provides a necessary truth about history. Those who forget it are doomed to repeat it. This passes the knowledge on to the young readers and introduces them to what is an ongoing battle to preserve our rights as Black people in this country. It opens a conversation of where we are and the fight we still have to come