The Early Black Press: Tennessee Voices Lifted | The Citizenship Project

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The Early Black Press: Tennessee Voices Lifted | The Citizenship Project

One of the rights African Americans gained as a result of the Civil War was the right to free expression. Rather than relying on the newspapers of the day to carry their stories and the stories that interested them, black Tennesseans started their own newspapers.
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