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.

Young children work with little hope of getting a formal education.

American Lewis Hines photographs children in all sorts of manual labor jobs.

Jackie Robinson is politically independent but fights for civil rights.

The Free State Army and the Irish Republican Army continue to fight.

SC Standards 8-4.2: Analyze how sectionalism arose from racial tension, including the Denmark Vesey Plot, slave codes, and the growth of the abolitio...

Japanese-American business owners close and sell their business.

Taking part in the Civil War at such a young age is what creates Jesse's brutal outlaw status.

Almost 40 years later, upon review, Korematsu's conviction is overturned.

Wilberforce and others who oppose slavery struggle to convince the public to outlaw slavery.

Cornwallis wants to execute Wolfe Tone.

Jackie Robinson faces charges of being disrespectful to investigating officers, rather than refusing to move to the rear of the bus.

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