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The Citizenship Project
Education: The Key to Freedom
A documentary about the African American struggle for educational equality in Tennessee.
The Early Black Press
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.
The Early Black Press
The Citizenship Project Episode 2 | 29m 46s | CC
One of the rights African Americans gained as a result of the Civil War was the right to free expression. Rather than rely on the newspapers of the day to carry their stories and the stories they were interested in, Black Tennesseans started their own newspapers. Over the years, these papers were read by black and white Tennesseans alike.
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