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.
Even though the Irish Constitution states that families have rights, it does not change.
Anthony lives in a Quaker home that believes in equal rights, hard work, and education.
Susan is from a Quaker family that believes men and women had equal standing before God.
Although his family continues to try to see him, Edgardo decides to remain with the Catholic Church.
Edgardo chooses the Catholic Church over freedom and his family.
Even after liberation, Edgardo plans never to rejoin his family.
Edward Bushell holds firm on his verdict, in favor of William Penn, and his own case (based on a Writ of Habeas Corpus) changes the law for future jur...
Lawmakers begin to protect working children in the early 1900s with age limits.
General Eisenhower visits many Nazi death camps to document their existence and crimes.
Starving families, with no home, walk the roads to nowhere until they die.
Elizabeth Packard participates in an open-study Bible class where the teacher encourages many points of view.
Her father sends Packard to an insane asylum in Massachusetts when she is 23.
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