ENG 101 - American Dream

President George W. Bush's speech in Atlanta, GA about expanding opportunities for homeownership.

Cesar Chavez was a civil rights activist who founded what became the United Farm Workers labor Union.

Frederick Douglass was an American social reformer, abolitionist, and writer who escaped from slavery and became a leader in the abolitionist movement.

National Youth Poet Laureate, Amanda Gorman, recites her poem "The Hill We Climb" at President Joe Biden's inauguration.

President John F. Kennedy gave his inaugural address in January 1961.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights activist during the 1950s-1960s. The "Letter from Birmingham Jail" is an open letter written by King while he was arrested in April 1963 in Birmingham, AL for protesting segregation.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a civil rights activity during the 1950s-1960s. He received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964.

"The New Colossus" is the poem that is at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

Harvey Milk was the first openly gay man elected into public office in California.

Gloria Naylor is an American novelist who discussed how the American Dream connects to Nella Larsen's novel "Passing."

President Barack Obama's 2007 speech while campaigning for President in Bettendorf, IA discussing the modern American Dream.

Ke Huy Quan's 2023 Oscar acceptance speech for Best Supporting Actor.

President Ronald Reagan's 1982 address to the Nation on the state of the economy.

This video by Eric Thomas discusses overcoming poverty and a rough beginning.

Henry David Thoreau was an American transcendentalist who believed that people should not allow governments to think for them.

Mary Wollstonecraft was a British writer and an early women's rights advocate.

Virginia Woolf was a British author who delivered "Professions for Women" before a branch of the National Society for Women's Service in 1931.

Part of 2013 PBS Bill Moyer interview of Economist Richard Wolff on Capitalism Run Wild where Richard talks about how the current economic system is making the American Dream impossible. (Starts at 37:46 into the interview)