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.

Despite the Jewish resistance to the German assault, Jewish men and women are captured and killed.

With George Washington as the Commander of their army, the colonists use rebel tactics and ambushes to hold their ground.

Even though the American public may not approve, this does not mean the one in power is wrong.

"Freedom Summer" results in terrible violence yet the civil-rights workers keep at their task of registering black voters.

Throughout United States history we express our frustrations and pride in our country through the media.

King John continues to fight with the nobles until his death. Eight hundred years later the Magna Carta is still an important document.

King Bruce wants to atone for his mistakes and orders that upon his death, his heart be cut out and taken on a Crusade.

The Magna Carta grants certain liberties to noblemen and, years later, becomes a basis for American rights and liberties.

Family members are put in different camps where they work on large projects, such as the White Sea Canal.

Scholars disagree about the reliability of slave memoirs and oral histories.

Jim Crow Laws, named after a character in a minstrel show, become a synonym for legal segregation.

In 1920, the 19th Amendment gives women the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony died before that happened.

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