Civil Rights Story Briefs

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.

During WWII, the federal government urged American women to join the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and become what was known as a WAAC.

Anti-suffrage groups published political cartoons to warn what could happen if women were given the right to vote.

Yad Vashem, the Holocaust memorial museum in Jerusalem, has a very moving memorial to children lost in the war.

A disaster occurs, for captured Africans, when a water shortage aboard a slave ship results in the deliberate killing of people (whom the crew and shi...

WARNING: THIS CLIP CONTAINS SEGMENTS DEALING WITH SLAVERY AND THE CRUELTIES ASSOCIATED THEREWITH.

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