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The Citizenship Project
The Fight to Vote: Black Voter Suppression in Tennessee
A documentary about how the right to vote has evolved in the U.S., specifically in Tenn.
Uprooted
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.
Uprooted
The Citizenship Project Episode 8 | 26m 46s | CC
Black land ownership peaked in 1910, just two generations after emancipation when African American farmers owned 16 million acres. By 1990, that number had withered to just 2 million. White supremacist backlash, combined with discriminatory practices of government agencies forced many Black farmers from lands that had been in their families for decades. UPROOTED shares their continuing story.
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