Civil Rights Chapters

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.

8-3.2 The role of SC in the Constitutional Convention including the Three-Fifths Compromise and Commerce Compromise

Tone prefers being shot to being hung as a traitor.

Before laws are passed granting women's rights, women cannot make contracts, get divorced, vote, hold office, attend college, or earn a living.

Despite the trauma Norwegians endured during the country's five-year occupation by Hitler's forces, one thing remained unchanged during those difficul...

During the Nazi occupation of Norway, people showed their solidarity with each other by wearing red caps. Then the Nazis outlawed red caps. This image...

After his slave ordeal is over, Solomon Northup brings charges against the people who wrongfully sold him into slavery. Because a black person cannot ...

Charles Schenck, secretary general of the Socialist Party of America, believes the military draft is unconstitutional.

Olaudah Equiano was one of the first African slaves to live through slavery and then write about it.

In 1995, Mandela and South Africa create a slogan to unite the whole country behind their rugby team: "One Team, One Country."

Elizabeth Packard spends her life trying to change mental health laws and women's property rights.

District 12 is a poor, coal-mining district in former Appalachia.

The Capitol, a totalitarian government, is in charge of the fictional country of Panem.

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