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.
Rosa Parks brought the civil rights movement fuel to grow with her actions.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was a GULAG prisoner for 8 years (1945 to 1953).
On the 7th of March, 1965, Alabama law-enforcement officials attacked civil-rights marchers as they attempted to cross the bridge in Selma. These are ...
It starts on 7 March 1965 when a civil rights procession, from Selma to Montgomery, turns violent. MLK gets involved and leads the second attempt (on ...
When kidnappers capture Africans, intending to make them slaves, they use shackles (among other things) to bind them.
Racism in America, during the days before the Civil Rights Act of 1964, was even manifested in law-enforcement officials.
The houses pictured here - called "shotguns" - are in the Farish Street District of Jackson, Mississippi.
Silently marching down 5th Avenue, nearly 10,000 African-Americans protest discrimination and Jim-Crow laws on July 28, 1917. It is the first time tha...
Sinn Fin (meaning "Ourselves Alone") is an Irish political party favoring Irish Republicanism for ALL of Ireland, including Northern Ireland. This ima...
In the election of 1910, many Irish nationalists were elected to Parliament.
A pro-Southern political cartoon intended to show that American slaves were better-off than British workers.
Since it became America's capital city, circa 1800, Washington City had slaves. This compendium includes laws impacting slavery in the District.
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