Civil/Human Rights

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Patrice Lumumba, right, and Joseph Okito, left
Congolese Rumba: Soundtrack to African Political Struggle
Fourth of July celebration in Philadelphia, 1819.
The United States: Democracy or Republic?
Betty Friedan
Betty Friedan's "The Feminine Mystique"
Defendants hearing verdict, Nuremberg Trial Photographs, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Collection, Gift of Elizabeth Duddy
The Nuremberg Judgment
Crewmen of the amphibious cargo ship USS Durham take on Vietnamese refugees in 1975
Defining Refugees
Sergeant First Class Major Cleveland points out North Korean position to his machine gun crew, 1950.
Executive Order 9981 and the Integration of the American Military
Someone's hand holding a paper strip up to a Guatemalan woman's arm. The woman's arm has a white strip on it.
The Guatemala Inoculation Experiments
A refrigerator advertisement in The Ladies Home Journal, 1948.
The Feminine Mystique
The new Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador, which opened in February 2023, was built to detain thousands suspected gang members.
Marching Back to the Past: Militarism in El Salvador
Ita Ford, Dorothy Kazel, Jean Donovan, and Maura Clarke
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
A Uyghur hunter in Kashgar, 2005.
Xinjiang: From Autonomy to Dystopia
Artist representation of data security and privacy. Large eye peeks through an open window.
These Machines Know Too Damn Much
group of protesters with linked arms at Epifanio de los Santos Avenue
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
Francisco Franco speaking to his naval forces in 1938
The Death of Franco
A photograph of Viola Desmond
Remembering Viola Desmond
The defendants in the dock at the International Military Tribunal. They were organized in the dock according to the importance of their positions in the Nazi leadership.
The Nuremberg Judgment
migrants walking down a road
Defining Refugees: 1921 and 1951
A scene from the revolution
The People Power Revolution, Philippines 1986
A protestor in Minsk watches the August 2020 demonstrations.
History, Memory, and the Art of Protest in Belarus
Ita Ford and Dorothy Kazel, two of the murdered women of El Salvador
The Murdered Churchwomen in El Salvador
A carved wooden mural in Livingstone, Zambia.
The Year of Africa
American Anti-Slavery Society, 1837
Revisiting Long Histories of the Reparations Debate
Portrait of Francisco Franco in 1964 from Biblioteca Virtual de Defensa
The Death of Franco
Group of women marching with signs: "GWU Women's Liberation," "I'm a second-class citizen," "Women demand equality"
A Slut from East Toledo (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 5)