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.
Hannah More opposed slavery and the slave trade. She fought hard with people like Thomas Clarkson, William Wilberforce, John Newton and many others to...
Herman Boone was the head coach of the 1971 Titans football team.
This photo is frequently mistaken as a picture of Homer Plessy. It is actually Pinckney Benton Stewart Pinchback (10 May 1837 - 21 December 1921...
Learn how the Hawaiians honored the gods!
Making their point with EXTREMELY graphic depictions of slaves at work (and being punished for daring to rebel or escape), anti-slavery societies did ...
After his city of Warsaw had been bombed into ruin, a 9-year old boy becomes the breadwinner of his family.
During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed ditch-bank housing - homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.
During the 1930s, Dorothea Lange photographed the types of homes in which migrant farm workers lived in California’s Imperial Valley.
70 years later, people still feel the impact of partitioning India into two countries (India and Pakistan) based on religion.
President Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act of 1830 into law during that year. Later, in December, he addressed the Congress with reasons w...
Not long before he dies, Jackie Robinson writes the story of his life.
Thomas Clarkson describes and depicts the shocking transport of slaves during the Middle Passage for the public to behold.
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