Traces the history of the rights of African Americans from the origins of slavery through abolition and the civil rights movement to the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the persistence of racism.
Traces the history of Native American relations with people of other origins from their arrival in North America through generations of broken treaties and forced removals to the current situation.
Traces the history of people with disabilities from the discrimination they endured during much of history through the earliest efforts at change to the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and the current situation.
Traces the history of the fight to secure civil rights of the Mexican American people including their struggles for representation in the U.S. Government.
Traces the history of the struggle for the right of women in the United States to vote from the first idea of women's rights and the ties to abolitionism through the nineteenth-century leaders to the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment.