Are people born free? Do governments give rights to citizens or do citizens give-up some rights in exchange for good government? These are stories about people seeking and achieving their civil rights.
Marion Post Wolcott took thousands of pictures for the U.S. government’s Farm Security Administration. This image, made in 1939, depicts a migrant c...
Thousands of Irish children were sent to places called "Industrial Schools" throughout the 1950s. Many of these "schools" were not suitable for childr...
Lina Radke, a German-born athlete, refused to be intimidated by cultural limitations on females participating in sports.
Lucy Burns friend of Alice Paul worked internationally to get women the right to vote.
Nelson Mandela and Evelyn Mase (then his girlfriend) are seen here at the wedding of Walter and Albertina Sisulu in April of 1944.
Thembekile (known as Thembi) was Mandela's older son (with his first wife, Evelyn) and his third-born child.
After Mandela returned from a trip abroad, in 1962, he went into hiding.
After graduation, Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo formed the only South African law firm which was owned and operated by blacks.
Spared the death penalty for a treason conviction, Nelson Mandela was sentenced to life imprisonment during June of 1964.
In this clip, narrated by Morgan Freeman, we see historical footage depicting tensions between black and white South Africans. The video demonst...
Even while he was imprisoned in an impossibly small cell on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela maintained a physical-fitness regimen.
Solomon Northup, a free black, is listed as a slave called "Plat Hamilton" on this manifest for the brig Orleans.
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