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.

John Rabe, John Magee and Dr. Robert O. Wilson provide eyewitness stories about Japanese killings in Nanjing (Nanking).

Barely sixteen, Jesse participates with William Quantrill and his men in killing citizens of Lawrence Kansas.

Jesse takes part in theCentralia Massacre, in which his group kills or wounds 22 unarmed Union troops.

People make negative remarks about Susan B. Anthony because of her views.

Critics of "That Convention" say it resembles "a lunatic asylum, and that Susan "represented the aggressive female American brains."

Others tried to intervene to save Tone without success.

Scottish resistance begins full force in 1297, when Wallace and his men kill the sheriff of Lanark and 240 others.

Although Antwone Fisher is not a juvenile delinquent, he spends time in the George Junior Republic reform school in Grove City, Pennsylvania.

Anthony believes presidential candidate Greeley will be favorable towards women and supports him.

Although many men ridicule the idea of votes for women, presidential candidate Horace Greeley did not.

Though African Americans were free, after the Civil War, the U.S. federal government (including the federal courts) allows the practice of racial segr...

The Catholic Church laws, in 19th-century Italy, legally allow baptized Jewish children to be taken from their families.

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