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The Citizenship Project

We’re taught that citizenship involves certain rights and duties but the reality for many citizens in minority communities, these rights of citizenship are not automatically granted. Nashville Public Television’s original series The Citizenship Project explores these stories, one hundred years after the Civil War and into the 20th century.

1 Season · 10 Episodes

Latest episode

Cumberland Homesteads: Showplace of the New Deal

The Citizenship Project Episode 10 | 26m 51s | CC

Cumberland Homesteads was one of the first and most ambitious New Deal projects. The goal was to create a self-sufficient community where destitute families would have the chance to own their own farms and homes. The cooperative experiment failed to reach some of its goals but the Homesteads community survived, with most of the original homes still in use today.

NPT’s The Citizenship Project is made possible by the support of Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area and the First Tennessee Foundation.

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