A MORE PERFECT UNION

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• Foreword: Needed!
  Democratic Conversations about Our Country and Our Communities

• Using this Study Circle Guide
  • What is a Study Circle?
  • Organizing Study Circles
  • Tips for Multicultural Collaboration
  • Basic Steps in Creating Community-wide Dialogue
  • Tips for Study Circle Leaders
  • Guidelines for Study Circle Participants
  • Pointers for Using the Discusion-Starter Video, Toward a More Perfect Union

• Working on Common Cross-cultural Communication Challenges
  by Marcelle E. DuPraw, National Institute for Dispute Resolution, and Marya Axner

• Discussion Materials for Four Study Circle Sessions on Cultural Identity and Diversity
  1. Session One: Who Are We? The Many Faces of America
     • What some People Are Saying... on this topic
  2. Session Two: Bonds and Boundaries: Looking at Our Communities
     • What some People Are Saying... on this topic
  3. Session Three: Visions of America: What Ties Us Together?
     • What some People Are Saying... on this topic
     • Views on Being an American Today Seven points of view
  4. Session Four: Making a Difference: What Can We Do to Build a Stronger Community in an Age of Diversity?
     • Creating a New "Social Contract" Excerpts from a speech by Henry Cisneros

• Supplemental Readings on Diversity and Union
  1. "American Stories" An essay by Rosemary Bray
  2. "Valuing the Difference: Diversity as an Asset" From a speech by Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Henry Cisneros to the National Civic League, November 1992
  3. "America's Immigration Story: Still the Melting Pot" An article by Everett Carll Ladd for the Christian Science Monitor, August 4, 1995
  4. "Sample Citizenship Questions " 100 examples of questions on the official test for U.S. citizenship, from the U.S. Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS)
  5. The Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776
  6. Excerpts from The Constitution of the United States of America: The Preamble; the Bill of Rights; and other selected amendments
  7. Some American Beliefs about Equality, selected from the National Endowment of the Humanities' "National Conversation Kit,"
     • Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysbury Address November 19, 1863
     • Robert Yellowtail Address before the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, September 9, 1919
     • Martin Luther King, Jr., I Have a Dream August 20, 1963
     • Plan de Delano Proclamation Issued by La Causa when the National Farm Workers' Association voted to join the Filipino grape pickers' strike, 1965

• Resources for Further Discussion and Action
  • Bibliography of Print and Other Media
  • List of Organizational Resources

  • Acknowledgments and credits for site content

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  A MORE PERFECT UNION

  About the AMPU Project and How to Get Involved

More information about TALK TO ME, the hour-long video

General Press Release about the PBS Broadcast
Video Production Credits
Introduction to On-Air Participants and Selected Quotes from TALK TO ME
Conversation Organizers' Guide: Advice on using TALK TO ME
in classrooms and community groups

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