[Letter to district organizations from Grace H. Bagley, Chairman Americanization Committee, NAWSA]
Letter fro Grace H. Bagley to district organizations of the NAWSA, announcing a forthcoming Americanization campaign as an act of war service. <br /><br />Header: War Service of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Department of Americanization.<br /><br />"Americanization means the making of loyal American citizens out of alien immigrants.<br />America's supremeneed in facing the gravest crisis in its history is a solidly united people, imbued with national sentiment and love of country."
Bagley, Grace H. (Mrs. Frederick P. Bagley)
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
1917
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Americanization Day -- July 4, 1917. Bulletin No. 8 of the Immigration Committee
One in a serial publication of the Immigration Committeee of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. This bulletin encourages local Chambers of Commerce and the industries of the country to render national service by celebrating July 4, 1917 as "Americanization Day."
Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Immigration Committee.
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1917 March 1
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Association Monthly, January 1920
Monthly publication of the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
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National Board of the Young Women's Christian Association of the United States of America
1920 January
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Begin at the Beginning
Pamphlet advocating for compulsory kindergarten as a means to Americanization. Written by Philander Priestly Claxton, former United States Commissioner of Education, and David Starr Jordan, Chancellor Emeritus, Leland Stanford Junior University. <br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />"THE CHILD IS THE FATHER OF THE MAN <br /><br />The way to 'Americanize' foreigners as well as the native born is to commence at the beginning or as near there as possible. The idea of a kindergarten, like that of any other form of garden, is to give proper culture and to give it early, when it is most needed. The most important duty of any people is to care for its children. In the schools of today the future of the nation is written. And to the kindergarten all higher schools must look for the initiative of their work. All other forms of 'national defense' dwindle into impertinent insignificance when compared with the training of the children."
Claxton, P. P.
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National Kindergarten Association
[1921?]
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December Bulletin. Americanization As War Service. National American Woman Suffrage Association
<p>Publication of the Americanization Committee of the NAWSA. Grace H. Bagley (Mrs. Frederick P. Bagley), Chairman.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p. 1 "SPEAKING ENGLISH IS THE FIRST STEP IN AMERICAN CITIZENSHIP AND THEREFORE THE PUBLIC SCHOOL IS THE NATION-WIDE MEDIUM FOR THE MAKING OF LOYAL AMERICAN CITIZENS OUT OF OUR ALIEN POPULATION."<br /><br />p.2 "PROVIDE FOR THE AMERICANIZATION OF THE IMMIGRANT WOMAN. Can the Americanization of our foreign population succeed without the cooperation of the mother? Past failure is due largely to the fact that no intelligent effort has been made to face the situation of the immigrant woman, who either has an infant in her arms or is expecting a baby..."<br /><br />"PATRIOTIC MEETINGS should be organized and conducted by suffragists in every foreign quarter in the United States. Music stereoptican picutres and speeches in foreign languages should be among the attractions. Learn the art of making these patriotic meetings so attractive that the crowds will have to be shut out instead of coaxed in."</p>
<p>p. 2-3 "AMERICANIZATION AND INDUSTRY. LABOR IS THE KEY TO SUCCESS in the war. We must not only feed, clothe and arm our own soldiers, sailors and civilians; we must also assist our allies. The task would be impossible without our foreign population."</p>
Americanization Committee. National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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1917 December
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I Pledge Allegiance [American Legion comic book]
Educational comic book created and distributed by the American Legion. Aimed at elementary aged children, this comic book explains the meaning of the words of the Pledge. Simple puzzles and activities reinforce the lessons. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />"One Nation Under God,<br />Our nation is great and powerful! But many of our people believe in a higher power.<br />God means many things to many people. In our country, we have the <strong>Freedom to Worship </strong>as we please, or not to if we choose."<br /><br />"Indivisible,<br /><strong>Indivisible </strong>means that our country can't be divided or broken up. We're strongest when we are all together. <br />So when we pledge allegiance we all agree to stick together. That's right! Even if we disagree, we promise to stay together as one nation."
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1995
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Kindergarten Legislation
Pamphlet promoting state legislation to include kindergartens for children aged four to six years in public schools.<br /><br />"LOOK FOR YOUR STATE IN THE FOLLLOWING LIST...<br /><br />If there IS legislative activity in your state, write to the National Kindergarten Association for names of organizations sponsoring it, and give them your support.<br /><br />If there is NO legislative activity in your state, will you not initiate it?"
National Kindergarten Association
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National Kindergarten Association Letter, 1922
Letter from Bessie Locke, Corresponding Secretary of the National Kindergarten Association, addressed "FOR YOUR RESOLUTIONS COMMITTEE" and refers to an upcoming local [state?] convention. <br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />"RESOLVED, That the [National Kindergarten Association] urge its members to circulate petitions for kindergartens in their public schools, and write for information and advice on the subject to the National Kindergarten Association, 8 West 40th Street, New York."<br /><br />"RESOLVED, That the [National Kindergarten Association] sponsor a bill providing for the establishment of kindergartens upon petition of parents at the next legislative session. (California, Arizona, Nevada, Maine, Texas, Kansas, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin have already enacted petition kindergarten laws.)"<br /><br />"For the sake of the country's neglected little children, we hope it may be possible for you to have the above resolutions passed at your next convention. We shall appreciate news from you of the passage of either or both of them."<br /><br />The letter is stamped with what is likely the date received, April 13, 1922.
Locke, Bessie
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Oration: True Americanism
Pamphlet of speech delivered by Louis Brandeis at <a href="https://www.digitalcommonwealth.org/search/commonwealth:0p096x14k" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Postcard of Fanueil Hall">Fanueil Hall, Boston</a> on July 5, 1915 in which he addresses the ideals and traditions he views as distinctly "American," such as liberty, democracy, social justice and a standard of living that includes fair working conditions, decent wages, education and financial independence. Brandeis names "inclusive brotherhood" - the welcoming of immigrants, racial equality and diversity - as the feature in these ideals that is "peculiarly American" and has led to America's prosperity. He concludes by suggesting the principles of Americanism could bring about lasting peace abroad.<br /><br />Pamphlet signed by Louis Brandeis on front cover.<br /><br />Along with the text of Brandeis' oration, the pamphlet includes a photograph of Rev. Charles W. Lyons, S. J., President of Boston College, Chaplain of the Day. An appendix, "A List of Boston Municipal Orators" by C. W. Ernst, lists Boston orators appointed by the Municipal Authorities beginning in 1771. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 3 "The United States has grown great. The immigrants and their immediate descendants have proved themselves as loyal as any citizens of the country. Liberty has knit us closely together as Americans." <br /><br />p. 4 "But the adoption of our language, manners and customs is only a small part of the process. To become Americanized the change wrought must be fundamental." <br /><br />p. 5 "But let us not forget that many a poor immigrant comes to us from distant lands, ignorant of our language, strange in tattered clothes and with jarring manners, who is already truly American in this important sense; who has long shared our ideals and who, oppressed and persecuted abroad, has yearned for our land of liberty and for the opportunity of aiding in the realization of its aims." <br /><br />p.9 "America...has always declared herself for equality of nationalities as well as for equality of individuals. It recognizes racial equality as an essential of full human liberty and true brotherhood, and that racial equality is the complement of democracy."
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941
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City of Boston Print Dept.
1915
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Questionnaire For Survey For Americanization Work. National American Woman Suffrage Association
Questionnaire to be used by districts of the NAWSA for organizing Americanization efforts.
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
1917
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The First Work Camp for Democracy [trifold brochure]
Trifold brochure advertising the Work Camp for Democracy, August 7 to September 4, 1939, West Park, New York. <br /><br />The Executive Committee was chaired by Algernon D. Black who, with Alice K. Politzer, would found the Encampment for Citizenship in 1946.<br /><br />Sponsors included <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/people/kellogg-paul-underwood/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Paul Kellogg</a>, <a href="http://www.harvardsquarelibrary.org/biographies/max-otto/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Max Otto</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V.T._Thayer" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">V.T. Thayer</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Student_Union" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Agnes Reynolds</a>, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Francis_White" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Walter F. White</a>.<br /><br />Excerpt:<br /><br />"<em>The Work Camp for Democracy</em> is to be an experiment in democracy as a way of life suited to meet the challenge of our time. It will afford sixty young people, Americans and refugees, of various religious, racial and economic backgrounds the opportunity to study, work and play together to broaden their understanding of democracy."
Work Camp for Democracy
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1939
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War Service of The National American Woman Suffrage Association. Department of Americanization
Letter calling for suffragists to "inaugurate the Americanization work adopted as one of the four departments of patriotic service" by "joining in a nation-wide celebration" on July 4th with a local "Reception to the Newly Naturalized Citizens."<br /><br />"Have a large reception committee at the door and remember that where English is not understood by foreign guests, a gracious manner needs no interpretation."
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National American Woman Suffrage Association
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Woman Citizen, February 14, 1920. Special Convention Number
"Handing on the Work" cover illustration by C. D. Batchelor <br /><br />Advertisement for Rhoads clothing suitable for "The Woman of Today." "The Dress of the Hour on Exhibitition at the Convention Hall. A Marked Innovation -- The Dress of the Hour Representing the Spirit of the Times. The Woman of Today demands pratical--sane--frocks....For travel, for rest, for sports wear....For business for dress, for work."<br /><br />Advertisement for Victrola and Victor Records as an aid to Americanization. Educational Department, Victor Talking Machine Co."<br /><br />"'Americanization through music' A slogan of the hour. <br />Music is an universal language that needs no interpreter. It is the one common ground and most natural approach to the foreigner in welding him to the spirit of true Americanism.<br />A great movement is now sweeping the country to make firm and lasting the process of the melting pot,--to bring securely into the fold of American citizenry our adopted brothers from other lands....Song, universal in its appeal, is a deep and moving force. The Community Singing idea of war days must be perpetuated. It is productive of immeasurable good in this wholesome movement of Americanization. Nothing is more unifying and democratic than the group singing of old familiar and patriotic songs. Sing them with stirring band accompaniment,--strong, correct, inspiring!"<br /><br />Suggested song titles include "America," "Star Spangled Banner," "My Old Kentucky Home," "Battle Hymn of the Republic," "Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms," "Annie Laurie," and "Flow Gently Sweet Afton."
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