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.
Auschwitz became the worst Nazi death camp of all.
In April of 1942, Slovakia began handing over its Jews to the Nazi government.
WARNING: SCENES IN THIS CLIP - FROM "WAR AND REMEMBRANCE" - ARE RECREATED EVENTS ABOUT THE BABI YAR MASSACRE IN UKRAINE (AMONG OTHER ATROCITIES).
Ohio was an important state for escaping slaves. This video provides some interesting background on how enslaved people became free when they were abl...
At the beginning of 1917, the Russian city ofSt.
In her book North to Freedom (also known as I am David), Anne Holms sets the stage at a Bulgarian forced labor camp - likely Belene - where children, ...
In this clip, from Cry Freedom, Denzel Washington portrays Stephen Biko.
Video clip of historical footage depicting street fighting during the Black Hawk Down battle in October of 1993.
Navy Commander Jeremiah Denison lets the world know about torture in a POW prison during his May, 1966 interview when he answers questions one way (wi...
After Medgar Evers was murdered, in his own driveway, Bob Dylan wrote a song commemorating the civil-rights leader.
When he was just twenty years old, Bob Dylan wrote a song about "The Death of Emmett Till.
During the second Anglo-Boer War (1899-1902), when the Boers refused to surrender to the Anglos, the British rounded-up thousands of Afrikaners (Boers...
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