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.
An all-white male jury convicts and sentences Celia to hang for first-degree murder.
It is July 2, 1776. To cut all ties with Britain, the 2nd Continental Congress approves the Declaration of Independence without dissent.
Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that permits the use ofmilitary force in Southeast Asia without a formaldeclaration of war.
SS Major General Stroop destroys the second-largest Jewish community in the world.
Schenck is charged and found guilty of conspiring to cause disobedience in the military.
Charlotte Doyle's abandonment of her family leads to the children's commitment to Ireland's industrial schools.
Celia cannot tell her side of the story in her own trial because slaves cannot testify.
Elizabeth and her husband go to trial; the jury finds her sane.
Runaway slaves need to be creative to avoid capture.
William Still, a freeborn black man and Father of the Underground Railroad, shares accounts of slaves who take the passage to freedom.
Tule Lake internment camp allow students to take class and families to grow crops.
William Tyndale is largely responsible for the King James Version of the Bible, but his work is also burned.
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