[human rights]

Human rights facts:

January 6th, 1941:
President Franklin D. Roosevelt outlined a goal of "Four Freedoms": Freedom of speech and expression; the freedom of people to worship in their own way; freedom from want; freedom from fear.

March 21, 1965:
More than 3,000 civil rights demonstrators, led by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., began their march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama.

April 11, 1968:
President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1968, a week after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

April 15, 1989:
Students in Beijing launched a series of pro-democracy protests; the demonstrations culminated in a government crackdown at Tiananmen Square.