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.
A Union patrol raids Jesse's farm andtortureshis stepfather, Dr. Reuben Samuel, by hanging him from a tree.
Hitler plans his "final solution" to exterminate Jews, who make up 30% of Warsaw's citizens.
To keep blacks from becoming voters, Mississippi's constitution forces educational requirements on them.
Burns follows Wycliffe; both his body and his books are burned.
John Newton, a former slave trader, writes a journal telling of the horrors of the slave ship.
John Quincy Adams argues in defense of the Africans.
John Wycliffe translates the Bible into English, but Oxford expels him as his writings become more radical.
Men, women and children are captured in Africa and arrive in the "New World" as slaves after a terrible transatlantic journey aboard ships.
The jurors in the Penn case go to Newgate Prison until they pay all fines for disobeying the judge and finding in favor of William Penn.
Because Penn's jury refuses to agree with the government, they go to prison under inhumane conditions.
Kapu are sacred rules that the Hawaiian's thought of as a religion.
Katniss and Peeta, the last two Tributes, decide to defy the government by committing suicide to deprive the Capitol of a winner.
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