What the law requires (or allows) is not always fair or just or honorable. Politics is often polarizing. Stories in this collection help us to examine the highs and lows of "the law" over the centuries.
Illegally entering the US from Canada, with a passport belonging to a deceased person, Rudolf Abel begins his life as a spy in America and settles dow...
Although the Soviet Union never acknowledged that its policies caused the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33, Russia acknowledged it in 2003.
Thirty years after the Swann case ruling, white plaintiffs claim race based admission policies are biased and want the previous ruling overturned.
A new case declares that the Supreme Court decision about busing discriminates against non-black children; the law changes once more.
Not long after the Kent State tragedy, the Supreme Court orders schools to integrate immediately.
The Supreme Court ruling inSwann v Charlotte-Mecklenburg Board of Education permits busing students to achieve racial integration.
In 1965 millions of black Americans in the south still could not vote.
Sengbe raises money so that 35 of 53 Amistad captives can return to their homeland.
John Quincy Adams, a former American President, argues the Amistad case to the Supreme Court using the Declaration of Independence.
Four male college students from historically black North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College challenged segregation in public restaurants.
Slave pens, in Washington, are near America's Capitol Building and the White House in 1841.
Although Jefferson is a product of a slave-owning culture, he believes that equal rights apply to all men.
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