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.
On April 3, 1968 - while in Memphis supporting sanitation workers - MLK gave a moving speech. It was his last.
What was it like for ten-year-old children (and those even younger) to work as miners?
Medgar Evers was the NAACP's field secretary in Jackson, Mississippi.
Medgar Evers was fatally shot by Byron de la Beckwith.
The story of Beatrix Potter, and her relationship with Norman Warne, is brought to the screen by the Weinstein Company in a film entitled Miss Potter.
In this clip - from the PBS documentary, "Eyes on the Prize" - Moses ("Mose") Wright tells what happened the night Roy Bryant and J.
In this video clip, Nathaniel Anthony Ayers plays the trumpet, then the cello, in a duet with Joanne Pearce-Martin, principal keyboardist with the Los...
Navajo children, today, still hear the stories about "The Long Walk" from their family members.
President Polk, believing in "Manifest Destiny," wanted to expand U.
When the Navajo refused to give up their homes and land, Kit Carson and his soldiers embarked on a "scorched earth" policy about a year before General...
Navajo oral history includes horrific stories about the people who were relocated to Bosque Rodondo.
The Bosque Rodondo reservation covered about 160 square miles.
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