The Progressive Era In Depth

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As Gold-Seeking Anglo Americans forced Native Americans from their land, Colonel John Chivington ordered his soldiers to attack the Cheyenne and Arapahoe encampment, known as the Sand Creek Massacre.

Stonewall Jackson served in the Mexican-American War where he earned a reputation for bravery and toughness in battle, ultimately leading his Confederate Army forces to many victories against superior numbers of Union soldiers.

Sitting Bull was a proven warrior and leader of the Lakota Sioux tribe during one of the most tumultuous periods for Native Americans as the discovery of gold and subsequent westward expansion forced them from their lands.

James Buchanan was a lawyer by training but a lifelong politician, ultimately becoming U.S. president in 1856 where he would face the rising tension over slavery in America, building towards the Civil War.

Pol Pot was a 20th-Century Cambodian dictator who implemented genocidal measures to enforce conformity, ultimately causing an estimated 20% of citizens to perish.

Medgar Evers was a WWII veteran and civil rights activist who worked as an NAACP field secretary in Mississippi before he was assassinated by Byron De La Beckwith.

On Sunday, March 7th, 1965, John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., and some 600 protestors marched toward Montgomery before being violently disbanded by police.