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 image is from the October 10, 1846 issue of the London Pictorial Times. It illustrates a time of despair in Ireland, during what has come to be k...
W.E.B. DuBois spent his life gathering evidence to refute the myths of racial inferiority. African-Americans struggled in the face of discriminatory l...
Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) was born 21 years after the United States Supreme Court declared that "separate but equal" - between whites and people of...
Mahalia Jackson sings "We Shall Overcome" during her European Tour of 1971. She is in failing health when she gives this performance.
"We Shall Overcome" became the rally cry of the Civil Rights Movement in the 1960s.
Esther Morris was an early pioneer and feminist.
After the U.S. Supreme Court issued its school-desegregation opinion inBrown v Board of Education(1954) - impacting not just theschool in Topeka, Kans...
Even when he was very young, William personally helped escaping slaves and is known as the "Father of the Underground Railroad."
Although he was executed, Tyndale's legacy remains. Approximately 85% of the King James Version of the Bible follows Tyndale's translation.
When William Wallace arrived in London, soon-after his capture near Glasgow, he was put on trial. It would not go well for him.
The first state to grant female suffrage did so in 1869 and the NAWSA worked every year thereafter to make this right a national one.
Woodrow Wilson, about to be inaugurated as U.S. President, learns that American women are marching in protest against his stance on female voting righ...
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