Lincoln's use of the Emancipation Proclamation to preserve the Union

Legacy of the Voting Rights Act and ongoing barriers to voting access

Balancing vengeance, compassion, and the true purpose of incarceration

Bill Clinton's personal qualities and leadership on the national race dialog

Johnson and King's mutual trust and coordination on appointments and legislation

Learning to identify dangerous versus safer guards in the labor camp

African American resistance to the American Colonization Society and emigration debates

Moral complacency in the face of mass incarceration compared to historical injustices

Black newspapers, Emmett Till's murder, and the legacy of racial terror documentation

EJI's legal campaign against juvenile life without parole sentences

Transfer from labor camp to Auschwitz-Birkenau and its sole purpose of murder

Critiquing Obama's decency versus courage and moral witness on racial justice

Contradictions between freedom and slavery during the American Revolution

Frederick Douglass's role in shaping America's vision of freedom and equality

John Lewis and the Bloody Sunday march in Selma, Alabama

Enslaved people's political awareness and armed resistance during the Civil War

Western support for civil society and women's rights organizations in the Middle East

King's fearlessness despite fear and Jones's growing admiration after Kennedy's assassination

Colonial use of liberty as a rallying cry against British authority

Lynching photography as a genre and its lasting legacy

Bryan Stevenson's use of death penalty law to challenge juvenile life sentences

Obama's 2007 Selma speech and declaration to the Black community

The Dred Scott decision and the deepening crisis over slavery leading to 1860

The 13th Amendment's legacy, loopholes, and the persistence of white supremacy

Anticipated work remaining after the abolition of the death penalty

Application of nonviolent principles to contemporary activism and social movements