Civil Rights Videos

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.

Jackie Robinson wore number 42 on his Brooklyn Dodger uniform.

Mikhael Gorbachev restored Alexander Solzhenitsyn's citizenship in 1990.

Stopping in the northern city of Magadan, which once was the center of brutal Stalinist forced-labor camps, Solzhenitsyn pays homage to the many peopl...

Alexandr Solzhenitsyn - also known as Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn - was a Nobel-Prize winning author born in Russia on the 11th of December, 1918...

Alice Paul and Lucy Burns work hard to build their Congressional Committee.

Mistreated at the D.

Protesting the treatment of women, and still advocating for women's suffrage by reminding President Wilson of his own words (applied in a different co...

WARNING NOTICE: THIS VIDEO RECREATES WHAT HAPPENED WHEN AFRICANS WERE KIDNAPPED FROM THEIR HOMES AND FORCED INTO SLAVERY.

Trailer of the film, Amazing Grace, which tells the story of one man's determination to overturn an unjust law.

WARNING: THIS CLIP RECREATES A KIDNAPPING SCENE AND SHOWS HOW AFRICANS WERE TAKEN FROM THEIR HOMES AND SOLD AS SLAVES.

Trailer for the film, "Antwone Fisher.

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