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=5. Winning Freedom.=—Through cooperation and willingness to sacrifice both wealth and life, colonists win independence and preserve priceless principles and ideals.

BEARD, C. A. and M. R. The Rise of American Civilization. Macmillan Company, N. Y. 1937.

EATON, JEANETTE. Leader by Destiny. Harcourt, Brace and Company, N. Y. 1938.

=6. The Negro.=—From early colonial days, the Negro, who composes one-tenth of our population, plays large part in our economic and artistic life.

BRAWLEY, BENJAMIN. The Negro Genius. Dodd, Mead, and Co., N. Y. 1936.

BROWN, J. C. The Story of the American Negro. Friendship Press, N. Y. 1930.

WOODSON, CARTER G. The Negro in Our History. Associated Publishers, Washington. 1937.

=7. The French and Netherlanders.=—French fur traders and missionaries pioneer the Mississippi Valley; Netherlanders settle on Manhattan Island; French-Canadians work in lumber camps and mills of New England; diamond cutters come from Belgium; and French-speaking Swiss build up our cheese industry.

COFFIN, ROBERT P. T. Kennebec: Cradle of Americans. Farrar and Rinehart, N. Y. 1936.

REPPLIER, AGNES. Pere Marquette, Priest, Pioneer, Adventurer. Doubleday, Doran, and Co., N. Y. 1929.

WERTENBAKER, CHARLES. Before They Were Men. Liveright Publishing Co., N. Y. 1931.

=8. Upsurge of Democracy.=—Frontiersmen and newcomers unite to bring about decline of aristocracy. Eastern wage earners march in the ranks of the new democracy.

JAMES, MARQUIS. Life of Andrew Jackson. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, Ind. 1938.

ROOSEVELT, THEODORE. The Winning of the West. G. P. Putnam’s Sons, N. Y. 1895.

=9. The Irish.=—Sons of old Ireland develop canals, railroads, and factories, enter the ranks of public service, and bring song, humor, and literature of a high order.

DUNNE, FINLEY PETER (ELMER ELLIS, ed,). Mr. Dooley at His Best. Charles Scribner’s Sons, N. Y. 1938.

O’BRIEN, MICHAEL J. The Irish in the United States. Phoenix Ltd., Washington, D. C. 1914.

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COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM November 13-May 7

Every Sunday Afternoon, 2:00 E.S.T.; 1:00 C.T.; 12:00 M.T.; 11:00 P.T.

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

In the Fall of 1935, President Roosevelt made the first allotment of funds to the Office of Education for educational broadcasting. In discussing the idea, he emphasized the need for programs that would make more significant the human struggle to achieve our freedom as safeguarded by our Constitution; the values of inter-American understanding and friendship; and the processes of building a finer and more enduring American culture by developing a greater appreciation of the rich heritages that have come to us through the many races and nationalities which make up our population.

Hence, the first series, “Let Freedom Ring,” traced the evolution of human freedom and presented the contributions which old-world settlers had made to our conception of civil liberty. Then came “Brave New World,” portraying the Latin-American contributions to democracy and to the general culture of the Americas. In April, 1938, the President in addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution unknowingly gave the title to the series “Americans All—Immigrants All” when he said, “Remember that all of us are descended from immigrants.”

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What Brought Us to the United States?

Have you ever played with a magnet and a bunch of iron filings? Wasn’t it amazing to see the bits of iron leap across space to reach and cling to the magnet? This story is about a magnet much larger and more powerful than you have ever imagined—one 3,000 miles long and 1,500 miles wide. A different kind of magnet, too, one that attracted not iron filings, but human beings, real live people. A magnet that attracted every type and variety of human being alive! White people, black people, yellow people; Catholics, Protestants, Huguenots, Quakers, Baptists, Methodists, Unitarians, Jews; Spaniards, Danes, Chinese, Japanese, Dutch, Bohemians, Italians, Austrians, Slavs, Poles, Roumanians, Russians—and I’ve only just begun; farmers, miners, adventurers, soldiers, sailors, rich men, poor men, beggar men, thieves, shoemakers, tailors, actors, musicians, ministers, engineers, writers, singers, ditch-diggers, manufacturers, butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. That magnet was AMERICA.—From “We the People”—by LEO HUBERMAN.

Ever since the dawn of history, man has been on the move, restlessly seeking new environments in an effort to satisfy his physical and other needs. In the main, his wanderings have been local in character, highlighted by occasional mass migrations which have had a marked effect upon the history of the world. Among such mass migrations may be cited the migration of the Israelites from Palestine to Egypt, of the Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire, of the Saxons and Danes to England, of the Moors from the north of Africa to Spain, and of the Mongols and the Tartars from the Orient to Central Asia.

Great as these migrations were and important as their effect was on the course of history, they did not compare with the stream of humanity that began to flow to this country early in the seventeenth century—a stream that assumed flood proportions toward the close of the nineteenth century.