PART 1:AMERICANS ALL 1
THAT GREEK DOG&MacKinlay Kantor 3
ROGER WILLIAMS&Allan Seager 15
BUT THE GREATEST OF THESE 26
1.Fater Tim's Charities&Dan J.Forrestal,Jr. 26
2.Father Time&St.Louis"Globe-Democrat" 31
ROLL OF HONOR&J.George Fredman and Louis A Falk 33
VOICE OF FREEDOM&Edwin R.Embree 43
THE NEW COLOSSUS&EMMA LAZARUS 54
MA AND PA KARAS&Louis Adamic 55
JULIA IS EDUCATED&Sidney Mellery 68
AMERICAN NAMES&Maxwell Nurnberg 72
NEW AMERICANS IN VERMONT&Dorothy Canfield 74
IN A WORLD AT WAR 80
1.The Finest Story of World War II&Jackie Judge 80
2.Not in the Blood&New York"Times" 81
3.Harvest&New York"Times" 81
4.Holy Ground&George E.Sokolsky 83
THREE PRESIDENTS SPEAK 86
1.None to Make Him Afraid&George Washington 86
2.These Truths&Thomas Jefferson 86
3.A Compelling Force&Franklin D.Roosevelt 87
PART 2:THE THREAT 89
THEY GOT THE BLAME&Kenneth M.Gould 91
PLYMOUTH ROCK AND ELLIS ISLAND&Louis Adamic 111
the darker brother&bUCKLIN MOON 122
AN AMERICAN LOOKS AT AMERICA&Langston Hughes 136
1.Merry-Go-Round 136
2.My America 136
3.I,Too 138
PREJUDICE,POVERTY,AND ZOOT SUITS&The Editors of"Building America" 139
PRELUDE&Albert Halper 149
THE DESTRUCTIVE ELEMENT 160
1.The Degradation of Character&Pearl Buck 160
2.Prejudice Is Not Constructive&Hortense Powdermark 160
3.The Warped Personality&David M.Levy 161
4.Spiritual Degradation&William Allan Neilson 161
5.Men and Beasts&Father J.Elliot Ross 162
6.A Loss to Civilization&Hortense Powdermaker 163
7.When the Aliens Left&Ernest L.Meyer 163
8.Narrowing Our Boundaries&M.Margaret Anderson 164
9.The Economic Toll&Edwin R.Embree 165
10.The Political Toll&Edwin R.Embree 165
11.You Can't Segregate Disease&Edwi R.Embree 165
12.A Cause of War&Linden A.Mander 166
13.Alienating Our Allies&Selden Menefee 166
14.Divided We Fall&"We're All Americans" 166
15.Our Friends Are Losing Hope&Pearl Buck 167
16.asic to Peace&Wendell Willkie 168
17.The Threat of Race War&Edwin R.Embree 169
18.The Barrier&Pearl Buck 169
19.Precedent&Tom Paine 170
20.Sowing the Dragon's Teeth&Abraham Lincoln 170
21.Danger Signal&"Footprints of the Trojan Horse" 171
22.Fascism's Secret Weapon&Theresa L.Held 171
23.Prejudice Is Bad Business&Eric Johnston 173
24.Filtrable Virus&Arnold Herrick 177
25.Boomerang Reasoning&Abraham Lincoln 178
26.Integer&Robert E.Park 178
27.America Is Threatened&Pearl Buck 178
PEOPLE ARE HUMAN BEINGS&Frank Sinatra 179
WHAT DO YOU MEAN-MAZI?&Leo Shapiro 183
PART 3:FREEDOM FROM HATE 185
COMMENCEMENT OF THE"LIBERATOR"&William Lloyd Garrison 187
THE RACES OF MANKIND&Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish 189
STICKS AND STONES AND SEMANTICS&Arnold Herrick and S.I.Hayakawa 206
THE CHURCH LOOKS AT INTOLERANCE 223
1.Bigotry Is Un-American&Archbisop Francis J.Spellman 223
2.Of One Blood&Bishop S.Harrington Littell 229
THREE PLEDGES OF GOOD WILL 232
1.A Pledge for American Unity&Joseph M.Proskauer 232
2.Ten Commandments of Good Will&Walter W.Van Kirk 232
3.Declaration of War on Hate-Mongers 233
THERE ARE THINGS TO DO&Lillian Smith 234
A PROGRAM OF COMMUNITY ACTION&John P.Lewis 242
THE NEED FOR FEDERAL ACTION&Carey McWilliams 245
SHOULD GOVERNMENT GUARANTEE JOB EQUALITY FOR ALLRACES?&America's Town Meeting of the Air 252
THE ROOTS OF RACE HATRED&Irving Brant 269
WHITES AND BLACKS CAN WORK TOGETHER&William Hard 274
NEGROES AS NEIGHBORS&Lenore O'Rourke Mummy and Dorothy Phillips 280
ON QUOTA SYSTEMS AND DEMOCRACY&Albert Deutsch 285
BOOKS BUILD UNDERSTANDING 288
1.Portrait of an American&Clare Leighton 288
2.Inside Chinatown&Burton Rascoe 290
3.Adventures in the New World&John P.Marquand 292
4.Teamwork&Phyllis A.Whitney 294
5.What Any Human Being Wants&Lillian Smith 295
YORK TOWN COULD DO IT TOO&Helena Huntington Smith 298
LETTER TO MR.X&Five Members of Youthbuilders,Inc. 304
CONCERNING HUMAN RIGHTS&"National Jewish Monthly" 310
PART 4:INVOLVED IN MANKIND 311
SONG OF BROTHERHOOD&Walt Whitman 313
RED NECKTIE&Jo Sinclair 323
HUMAN BEING&Charles Van Devander and William O.Player,Jr. 329
A LITTLE BOY GOES TO WAR&Frank Brookhouser 330
UNTITLED&Norman Corwin 335
ONE WORLD&Wendell Willkie 346
TOWARD TOMORROW 354
1.The Four Freedoms&Franklin D.Roosevelt 354
2.The Atlantic Charter 354
3.The Teheran Declaration 355
4.A New World Organization 356
MEMORIAL ADDRESS ON IWO JIMA&Roland B.Gittelsohn 359
QUESTIONS AND PROJECTS 363
ADDRESSES OF ORGANIZATIONS 461
INDEX OF AUTHORS 462