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.
This letter, dated the 4th of April 1864, reflects President Lincoln's personal view of slavery.
Slave owners would pay rewards to anyone who helped recover fugitive slaves.
For centuries, Solovetski Monastery was a center of religious learning. Then it became something else.
Eva, the fictional heroine in "Someone Named Eva," is a victim of Nazi-Germany's "Lebenborn" program. What is that program? How did it impact the live...
Stephen Bantu Biko (1946-1977) was a South African anti-apartheid activist who died, under suspicious circumstances, while in police custody.
The June 1st (1861) issue of Harper's Weekly describes a deadly encounter between a group of Union volunteers and a St.
Alice Paul was born on January 11, 1885. A leading suffragist, she fights hard to give women the right to vote.
As the day of the parade draws closer, Alice Paul and Lucy Burns meet Inez Milholland.
Mary White Ovington (1865-1951) became very concerned about civil rights in America after she heard Frederick Douglass speak in a Brooklyn church duri...
This image depicts some of the tea which was thrown into Boston Harbor on the 16th of December, 1773, during an event known as "The Boston Tea Party.
For the 19th Amendment to become law - and give American women the right to vote - it needed the support of 36 states.
After the Civil War, federal troops returned to Texas. It had become a much-more volatile place during the years they were away.
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