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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 Fight to Vote: Black Voter Suppression in Tennessee
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 Fight to Vote: Black Voter Suppression in Tennessee
The Citizenship Project Episode 6 | 27m 29s | CC
A documentary about how the right to vote has evolved in the U.S., specifically in Tennessee and the South. Focusing mainly on the challenges poor and Black people faced getting access to the ballot box in the decades after the Civil War, this program aims to spur discussion about voting rights today and why voter turnout remains low in some parts of the country, even for presidential elections.
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