TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Feb 24, 2021

A documentary about how the right to vote has evolved in the United States, specifically in Tennessee and the South, is now available from Nashville Public Television. The program, "The Fight to Vote: Black Disenfranchisement in Tennessee," focuses mainly on the challenges poor and Black people faced getting access to the ballot box in the decades after the Civil War, but also aims to spur discussion about voting rights today and why voter turnout remains low in some parts of the country. The program also features the story of civil rights activist and NAACP president Elbert Williams, who was murdered in Brownsville in 1940.