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.

April 24, 2016 marks the 100th anniversary of Ireland's Easter Rising when the people of Ireland took definitive action to rid the country of British ...

The movie Angela's Ashes portrays the ongoing dispute between England and Ireland.

The original Emancipation Proclamation resides at the National Archives; Lincoln's copy burns in the Great Fire of Chicago in 1871.

Japanese-American citizens must evacuate their homes and go to internment camps.

Hitler plans to turn Norway into an affiliated nation. By the 9th of June, 1940, Norway falls although resistance continues throughout WWII.

Wilberforce introduces a bill in Parliament to outlaw and end the slave trade.

Many American women are champions in the fight for women's rights.

Africans lose the first trial, but abolitionists want them to be set free.

An integrated group of whites and blacks, men and women traveled by bus throughout the south to test compliance with the ruling in Boynton v Virginia

Death comes slowly in a hanging cage; the accused is exposed to the elements and starved.

The Heretic's Fork is an extremely painful way to die. Being in a stock is less painful but could cause the person humiliation.

The Capitol creates the Hunger games to demonstrate their power over the districts.

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