- 1841 - Segregation in Northern States: First-known U.S.
segregation law passed in Massachusetts, 1841
- 1866 - Black Men Able to vote: New law excludes all
women
- 1875 Civil Rights Act: Federal law guarantees
African-Americans the right to equal accommodations
- Abolishment of the African Slave-Trade: After trying to
persuade the British Parliament to abolish the slave-trade, William Wilberforce
was finally successful on the 23rd of February, 1807.
- American Women in the 19th Century: Women in the United
States had few political rights
- Anne Hutchinson: Stood trial in Massachusetts for not
adhering to Puritan beliefs
- Bill of Rights: First ten amendments of the U.S.
Constitution guarantee individual liberties
- Bushell's Writ for Habeas Corpus: Famous case
changed English law
- Declaration of Sentiments: Using the language of the
Declaration of Independence, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and others, drafted this
key statement of civil rights which launched the Women's Rights Convention at
Seneca Falls
- Edgardo Mortara: In the Papal States of Italy, Jewish
children could be baptized by non-priests and then removed from their parents'
home. This is a story about one of those tragedies.
- Elizabeth Packard: In 1864, various states - including
Illinois - allowed a husband to commit his wife to a mental institution if he
considered her insane. Elizabeth Packard fought back and, in so doing, changed
the law in four states.
- Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln's declaration and
its limitations
- Enforcing Slave-Trade Abolition: After Parliament
outlawed the slave trade, in 1807, stiff fines were imposed on violators. To
avoid those penalties, illegally operating slavers threw their human cargo
overboard. See the diary of Henry Binstead who witnessed some of the
atrocities.
- First Amendment: Freedom of Expression
- First Amendment: Freedom of Press - purpose and example
(Pentagon Papers)
- First Amendment: Freedom of Religion
- First Amendment: Freedom of religion, need for
- (The) Gulag: Denial of civil rights in the Soviet
Union
- Irish Poor Laws: A contributing factor to the Irish
Potato Famine
- Jim Crow Laws: A shameful time in American
history
- Kent State: Student protests end in death
- Kidnapping (of Jewish children): Condoned by "canon"
(church) law
- Little Rock Protests: African-Americans challenge
segregated schools
- Magna Carta: English nobles won rights from King John -
whereupon the Pope promptly excommunicated them
- Mary Dyer: First female executed in America, in 1660,
this Quaker woman died for practicing her religious beliefs
- Mormons Persecuted: Joseph and Hirim Smith - victims of
mob violence
- Peasants, Middle Ages: Lack of individual
rights
- People Rule: Americans have the right to disagree with
their government and do not hesitate to ridicule those in charge - as
demonstrated by selected political cartoons
- Practice of Law, Women not Allowed: Ruling by U.S.
Supreme Court (1872) against Myra Bradwell
- Prior Restraint of Free Speech: Prosecution for
speaking one's mind
- Racial Prejudice, U.S. Navy: Examples, pre-1955
- School Busing: Designed to integrate American schools,
busing students from one district to another was controversial at its start and
end
- School Segregation/Integration in the 1970s: The true
story of T.C. Williams High School featured in the film Remember the
Titans
- Scotland's Fight for freedom
- Susan Anthony: Tried by the United States for voting in
the 1872 presidential election
- Thirteenth Amendment: American slaves freed
- Voting Rights: American women first able to vote
(Nineteenth Amendment)
- Women's Rights: A pictorial overview of American
suffragists
- Worker Exploitation, Britain: In the 18th century,
working sixteen hours a day six days a week, Britain's working poor processed
the raw materials produced by slaves in the American and Caribbean colonies.
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