Civil Rights Story Briefs

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.

Although the Supreme Court was very busy, during the last part of the 19th century, the Justices overturned a key law providing civil-rights protectio...

America's Civil War significantly impacted Missouri, then a ''Slave State'' (but one that remained in the Union). Refugees, from Missouri's northern-b...

Colonel Benjamin Oliver Davis, Jr.

Although they had been successful at Lexington, the British Regulars were not as fortunate at Concord.

The Catholic Church bans Nicolaus Copernicus's book on the 5th of March, 1616 (decades after his death). Why ban a book which Catholic Universities ha...

Who risked all to aid those in need during the Holocaust? Corrie Ten Boom, a Dutch woman living in the town of Haarlem with her father and sister, dec...

The Nazi's bombed Coventry to brea morale, learn why it did not work.

Mexico's independence began with an event called "The Cry of Dolores" when a priest challenged his parishioners: "Will you free yourselves?"

For centuries, London's Fleet Prison was a terrible place. People who owed debts were routinely jailed there.

Not long after she received her diary, as a birthday present, Anne Frank and her father took a walk together near their Amsterdam home.

Three days after Anne Frank told "Kitty" about an unsettling conversation with her father - that the Frank family may have to go into hiding somewhere...

Anne Frank, a Jewish girl living with her family in Amsterdam, was thirteen years old during the summer of 1942.  At the time, German forces were...

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