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.
On the 18th of September, 1895, Professor Booker T.
Meet Branch Rickey, the former president and general manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers who believed that Major League baseball had to include non-white ...
When president-elect Woodrow Wilson arrives in Washington, for his inauguration, he wonders where the crowds are.
This moving rendition of "Brothers in Arms" - by Mark Knopfler and Dire Straits - was performed during a "Free Nelson Mandela" concert at Wembley Stad...
During the 16th century, when translators working in England wanted to provide people with English versions of religious works, the law not only disal...
Part 2 of Stefan Sharff's documentary on the Selma-to-Montgomery civil-rights march.
With a federal court order allowing their peaceful march from Selma to Montgomery, civil-rights activists - led by Dr.
During the summer of 1966, racial tensions in Cleveland were causing many concerns, especially in the Hough neighborhood.
Soon after the end of World War II, another conflict threatened to erupt in Europe.
The Catholic Church bans Nicolaus Copernicus's book on the 5th of March, 1616 (decades after his death). Why ban a book which Catholic Universities ha...
Young children were trapped in the wreckage of Coventry, following a massive bombing by Germany during the evening/morning of November 14/15, 1940.
The Nazi's bombed Coventry to brea morale, learn why it did not work.
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