Season 1: 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.
A documentary about the African American struggle for educational equality in Tennessee.
Education: The Key to Freedom
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.
The Fight to Vote: Black Voter Suppression in Tennessee
By One Vote | The Citizenship Project | NPT
BY ONE VOTE: WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN THE SOUTH charts TN’s deciding vote for the 19th Amendment.
By One Vote | The Citizenship Project | NPT
Soldier & Citizen | The Citizenship Project | NPT
NPT's Soldier & Citizen explores how the "blood debt" was leveraged for full citizenship.
Soldier & Citizen | The Citizenship Project | NPT
A Time of Joining | The Citizenship Project | NPT
NPT's original documentary about the benevolent societies that form after the Civil War.
A Time of Joining | The Citizenship Project | NPT
The Early Black Press | Tennessee Voices Lifted | NPT
African Americans gained from the Civil War was the right to free expression.
The Early Black Press | Tennessee Voices Lifted | NPT
First Black Statesmen: Tennessee's Self-Made Men | NPT
The story of the first 14 African American legislators to serve in TN's General Assembly.