As you view the video scenes from Emancipation: The Opera, you and your teacher and fellow students will have the opportunity to discuss the important issues raised in each video. On this page you will find supplementary materials that can help you make sense of what you see. The timeline lists events chronologically and has many clickable links that you can explore. The many articles available to you here discuss the history of Black human rights as it has unfolded in the decades before and since the end of the Civil War. Click on each topic below to open a document that talks about it.