American Dreams Book

Preface     xi
Founders' Dream/Dreamers Found     1
Introduction     1
"The Origin of the Longhouse-Seneca Legend"   Arthur Parker     1
The Mayflower Compact     5
From "A Model of Christian Charity"   John Winthrop     6
"Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"   Patrick Henry     8
Declaration of Independence   Thomas Jefferson     11
From "Common Sense"   Thomas Paine     16
"Letter to John Adams: Remember the Ladies" (1776)   Abigail Adams     22
John Adams' Response to "Remember the Ladies" (1776)     24
Constitution of the Iroquois Nations-The Great Binding Law (Gayanashagowa)   Dekanawidah     25
"The Star Spangled Banner"   Francis Scott Key     33
"My Country 'Tis of Thee"   Samuel F. Smith     34
From "Walker's Appeal, in Four Articles"   David Walker     36
From "Democracy in America"   Alexis de Tocqueville     43
"Simple Gifts"   Elder Joseph Brackett     49
"America the Beautiful"   Katharine Lee Bates     50
"Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"   James Weldon Johnson     51
"This Land is Your Land"   Woody Guthrie     52
For Further Research and Writing     54
Dreams Deferred     55
Introduction     55
The Seneca Falls Declaration   Elizabeth Cady Stanton   Susan B. Anthony     56
"Speech of 1851"   Chief Seattle     59
From "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"   Frederick Douglass     63
From The Planter's Northern Bride   Caroline Lee Hentz     71
"Graduating Address at Yale College, 1887"   Yan Phou Lee     80
From How the Other Half Lives   Jacob Riis     84
From The Souls of Black Folk   W. E. B. Du Bois     90
"Keep Your Eyes on the Prize"$dTraditional Civil Rights Song     95
"New York Fire Kills 148: Girl Victims Leap to Death from Factory"   Chicago Sunday Tribune     97
"The Ballot or the Bullet" (Text through Internet Search)   Malcolm X     102
From "The American Dream"   Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.     103
"The Ten-Point Program"$dThe Black Panther Party for Self-Defense     109
The National Organization for Women's 1966 Statement of Purpose   Betty Friedan     112
"Trail of Broken Treaties-20-Point Proposal"$dAmerican Indian Movement     117
"America"   Dr. Tolbert Small     124
For Further Research and Writing     125
Streets Paved With Gold     127
Introduction     127
From A New Home-Who'll Follow?   Caroline Kirkland     128
"The New Colossus"   Emma Lazarus     133
From "The Road to Business Success: A Talk to Young Men"   Andrew Carnegie     134
From "The Significance of the Frontier in American History"   Frederick Jackson Turner     140
From I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl   Hilda Satt Polacheck     145
From The Promised Land   Mary Antin     150
From Black Boy   Richard Wright     153
From Death of a Salesman   Arthur Miller     157
From Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez   Richard Rodriguez     162
From Messages From My Father   Calvin Trillin     167
"Stuck in Between," From I Begin My Life All Over Again   Lillian Faderman$dPao Her, interview     171
From "The Pineros"   Tom Knudson     175
"The Day an Immigrant Refugee Can Say, 'I'm an American'"    Helene Cooper     180
For Further Research and Writing     183
Sustaining the Dream     185
Introduction     185
"Little Boxes"   Malvina Reynolds     185
"Address at Rice University on the Space Effort"   John F. Kennedy     187
"Great Society Speech"   Lyndon B. Johnson     192
"On Being Asian American"   Lawson Fusao Inada     197
"My American Dream," From Studs Terkel, American Dreams: Lost and Found   Rafael Rosa     198
"Take The Power Back" (Text through Internet Search)$dRage Against the Machine     201
From "Kids in the Mall: Growing Up Controlled"   William Severini Kowinski     202
"Argument in Favor of Proposition 227"     207
From Nickel and Dimed   Barbara Ehrenreich     210
"What Sacagawea Means to Me"   Sherman Alexie     221
"The Death of Horatio Alger"   Paul Krugman     223
"All Falls Down" (Text through Internet Search)   Kanye West     226
"Superman Is An Illegal"   Jorge Lerma     227
"The Power of Our Pastime"   Marc Gellman     230
"Special Comment of October 18, 2006"   Keith Olbermann     232
"I Have a Dream" (Text through Internet Search)$dCommon (Lonnie Rashid Lynn, Jr.)     237
For Further Research and Writing     238
Credits     241