Selections from Frederick Douglass's speeches and writings representing his point of view of slavery, the condition of free blacks, the conduct of the Civil War and Lincoln's presidency, the era of Reconstruction, and the bleak years that come after it. Traces Douglass's reactions to the major figures of the times (Susan B. Anthony, Harriet tubman, Ida B. Wells-Barnett) and their impact on history.
Discusses the historical reasons for the Jewish migration to America in the nineteenth and early twentieth century and the accompanying problems of the journey and their adjustment here in the face of prejudice and intolerable living and working conditions.
Presents an overview of the events in African American history that culminated in the United States during the 1950s and 1960s and represented a striving for equal rights.