PBS American Experience: LBJ (stream or borrow dvds from your library) | Great Society speech text | note: "LBJ & the Great Society" by Ken Burns is currently in production
N-400 Part 9:37. If the law requires it, are you willing to perform work of national importance under civilian direction (do non-military work that the U.S. Government says is important to the country)?
USCIS 100:53. What is one promise you make when you become a United States citizen?
USCIS 128:67. Name two promises that new citizens make in the Oath of Allegiance.
Todd Arrington is a historian, writer, and veteran. He serves as Executive Director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Foundation. Arrington examines the Homestead Act of 1862, which offered 160 acres of land—taken from Indigenous tribes—to settlers seeking opportunity in the American West.
Connie Ryan has served as Executive Director of Interfaith Alliance of Iowa since 2002. With her leadership, the organization challenges religious extremism, defends democracy, protects religious freedom, and safeguards the rights of all Iowans. Connie is a registered lobbyist at the Iowa Legislature whose advocacy focuses on civil rights, religious liberty, strong public schools, and judicial independence. Ryan tells how 12-year-old Susan Clark integrated an Iowa school in 1868, winning a desegregation case decades before Brown v. Board of Education.
Rick Perlstein is an American historian, journalist, and author known for his in-depth chronicles of post-World War II conservatism. Perlstein explores the birth of bebop, the revolutionary jazz style forged by Black musicians in the 1940s that transformed the music into sophisticated high art.
Before World War II, jazz bands often played music for people to dance.
In New York, a new tax made dancing in clubs more expensive.
Some clubs began to offer jazz for people to sit and listen to.
Bebop helped make jazz an important form of modern American art.
POP Interview and Civics Quiz:
N-400 Have you EVER advocated (supported and promoted) any of the following, or been a member of, involved in, or in any way associated with any group anywhere in the world that advocated opposition to all organized government?
USCIS 100:78. / 128:100. Name one war fought by the United States in the 1900s.
USCIS 100:80 / 128.105. Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?