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.
Los Angeles has a large homeless population. Some of the city's homeless people live in the Skid Row section of town, not far from Disney Hall.
This image is the original letter - maintained at the Library of Congress - which Thomas Jefferson wrote to Spencer Roane on the 6th of September, 181...
Mose Wright (also called Moses Wright) is Emmett Till's great-uncle. When Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam are tried for the murder of Emmett Till, Mose Wrig...
John Boyne's novel - "The Boy in the Striped Pajamas" - is now a major motion picture. This clip presents one of its trailer.
Alleging that Socrates was corrupting the youth of Athens, the government of this city-state tried the famous philosopher. A jury of 500 people first ...
One of numerous relocation centers, during WWII, the Tule Lake internment camp was also known as a segregation center.
Escaping slaves, during the years of the "Underground Railroad," arrive at League Island (near Philadelphia).
The Attica State Correctional Facility, thirty miles east of Buffalo in upstate New York, was an overcrowded place in 1971.
A disaster unfolded at Attica State Prison when officials and inmates clashed during 1971.
WARNING: THIS VIDEO CLIP CONTAINS GRAPHIC PICTURES AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE USED BY ANGRY, UPSET PEOPLE WHO WERE INVOLVED IN THE ATTICA PRISON UPRISING.
This clip is from Eye of Vichy (L'oeil de Vichy) - by Claude Chabrol and narrated by Brian Cox (in the English version) - a documentary compiling hist...
After Alice Paul, Lucy Burns and their colleagues are released, they renew their efforts to get a constitutional amendment, granting women the right t...
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