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.
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 | The Citizenship Project | NPT
The end of the Civil War, after ratification of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments.