Civil Rights Story Briefs

Despite her obvious intelligence, Dorothy Height faced racial discrimination during her youth. Barnard College refused to accept her, but Height was ...

During the summer of 1964, known as "Freedom Summer," college students try to help African-Americans register to vote for the upcoming federal electio...

Interesting facts about MLK to ponder on MLK Day...such as why his father changed his name. While visiting Memphis, Tennessee - on the 4th of April, 1...

After South Carolina rejoined the Union, African-American males could vote. More blacks were involved in government in South Carolina than in any othe...

A voice for the voiceless, Elie Wiesel died July 2, 2016. "The opposite of love is not hate, but indifference," is one of his memorable lines.

After she read the 1842 "Report of the Children’s Employment Commission," an appalled Elizabeth Barrett Browning published her poem, "The Cry of the...

Emily Hobhouse, a young British woman who witnessed conditions in concentration camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, included the following passage...

When Mamie Till-Bradley sees the disfigured body of her son, she orders the funeral director to put a glass top over the remains but to keep the coffi...

During the trial of Roy Bryant and J.W. Milam - for the murder of Emmett Till - Mose Wright identified the two men as the kidnappers of his great-neph...

Theodora was one of the most-influential women of the ancient world. She was a champion of women's rights. She had laws passed which prohibited the tr...

Thinking that he was only in danger if he were caught by the Nazis who occupied his country, during World War II, Erling Storrusten (a Norwegian) is s...

WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME DEVELOPED "THE FINAL SOLUTION" AGAINST JEWISH PEOPLE. Proceed with caution.