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Line 43: The [[Tennessee Technological University]] Appalachian Center for Craft near Smithville was built with a $5 million federal grant that Evins secured as a member of the Appropriations Committee.<ref>[http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/about.html About the Appalachian Center for Craft] {{webarchive\|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509122217/http://www.tntech.edu/craftcenter/about.html \|date=2008-05-09 }}, Appalachian Center for Craft website, accessed July 8, 2008.</ref> Evins ~~was~~, a [[conservative Democrat]]~~; he~~, was slow to accept racial [[desegregation]],. ~~not~~Although ~~because of deep-seated personal bigotry but because it was a change to what had long been the accepted order of things. He~~he was one of three Tennessee Democratic congressmen not to sign the 1956 [[Southern Manifesto]], and voted in favor of the [[Voting Rights Act of 1965]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/89-1965/h87\|title=TO PASS H.R. 6400, THE 1965 VOTING RIGHTS ACT.}}</ref> ~~but~~he voted against of the [[Civil Rights Act of 1957\|Civil Rights Acts of 1957]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/85-1957/h42\|title=HR 6127. CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1957.\|work=GovTrack.us}}</ref> [[Civil Rights Act of 1960\|1960]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/86-1960/h102\|title=HR 8601. PASSAGE.}}</ref> [[Civil Rights Act of 1964\|1964]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/88-1964/h128\|title=H.R. 7152. PASSAGE.}}</ref> and [[Civil Rights Act of 1968\|1968]],<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/90-1967/h113\|title=TO PASS H.R. 2516, A BILL TO ESTABLISH PENALTIES FOR INTERFERENCE WITH CIVIL RIGHTS. INTERFERENCE WITH A PERSON ENGAGED IN ONE OF THE 8 ACTIVITIES PROTECTED UNDER THIS BILL MUST BE RACIALLY MOTIVATED TO INCUR THE BILL'S PENALTIES.}}</ref> while voting present on the [[Twenty-fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution\|24th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution]].<ref>{{cite web\|url=https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/87-1962/h193\|title=S.J. RES. 29. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT TO BAN THE USE OF POLL TAX AS A REQUIREMENT FOR VOTING IN FEDERAL ELECTIONS.\|work=GovTrack.us}}</ref> Evins decided not to stand for re-election in 1976, after serving a total of 15 terms. At the time of his retirement in January 1977, his continuous service in the U.S. House of Representatives was longer than that of any other House member from Tennessee.<ref name=TNenc>Carroll Van West, "[http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=447 Joseph Landon Evins, 1910-1984]," ''Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture''; accessed November 26, 2017.</ref><ref>[http://www.smithvilletn.com/jle.htm Who was Joe L. Evins?], DeKalb County, Tennessee website; accessed July 8, 2008.</ref><ref>[[B. Carroll Reece]], who died early in his 18th term in Congress, served longer in the House of Representatives than anyone else in Tennessee history, but his House tenure was not continuous. [[Jimmy Quillen]] served 17 consecutive terms in the House, breaking Evins' record for the longest continuous tenure in the House for a Tennessee congressman.</ref>

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