LANGSTON HUGHES -- "LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN"
How Langston Hughes touched bottom during the Depression and wrote an American anthem.
SILENT SENTINELS
Women had marched, picketed protested for 70 years. Then the Silent Sentinels were jailed, tortured, force fed. And you’re too busy to vote? (As seen in “Iron Jawed Angels.”)
VICTORIA FOR PRESIDENT -- IN 1872
"They cannot roll back the rising tide of reform. The world moves."
THOMAS PAINE -- BEYOND "COMMON SENSE"
In these "times that try men's souls," Thomas Paine offers a remedy -- believe in people, not institutions.