Civil Rights Videos

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.

Writing the story about Roskolnikov, and his interior struggles, Dostoevsky takes us inside Roskolnikov's mind.

WARNING: THIS CLIP EXPLAINS HOW HITLER AND HIS REGIME FIRST DEVELOPED, THEN IMPLEMENTED, THE DEPORTATION AND GASSING OF JEWISH PEOPLE.

As fiercely opposing sides gathered in Oxford, Mississippi - at the campus of Ole Miss - a battle over desegregation intensified.

When the BBC created its series "The World at War"—narrated by Sir Laurence Olivier—producers did not use all of the available historica...

A late-nineteenth-century hero from Scotland, Dr.

In this clip, from a film entitled Stanley and Livingstone," Henry Morton Stanley (a Welsh-American portrayed by Spencer Tracy) meets Dr.

This clip - from "Emmett Till - The Untold Story" - includes archival footage of Moses ("Mose") Wright, his son (Simeon Wright) and other individuals ...

Emmett Till's mother, Mamie Till-Mobley, maintained her focus regarding the death of her son until her own life was over, in 2003.

Against the backdrop of historical footage, depicting 1955's events, Mamie Till-Mobley narrates much of this clip from "Emmett Till - The Untold Story...

Mamie Till-Mobley tells the story of her son's death and the fight she had to mount in order to have her son's body returned to Chicago from Mississip...

During the murder trial, defense lawyers had argued - among other things - that the body was so deformed its remains could not be identified as Emmett...

During the trial of Roy Bryant and J.

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