The Citizenship Project
Uprooted Trailer
Preview: Episode 8 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
The history of Black land ownership in Tennessee is one of trials and triumphs.
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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The Citizenship Project is a local public television program presented by WNPT
NPT’s The Citizenship Project is made possible by the support of Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area and the First Tennessee Foundation.
The Citizenship Project
Uprooted Trailer
Preview: Episode 8 | 30sVideo has Closed Captions
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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- [Narrator] In 1920, Black farmers owned 16 million acres of land.
By 1997, 90% of it was gone.
Hear their story.
"Uprooted," Monday, April 24th at 8:00 PM on NPT.
The Citizenship Project is a local public television program presented by WNPT
NPT’s The Citizenship Project is made possible by the support of Tennessee Civil War National Heritage Area and the First Tennessee Foundation.