National Americanization Committee

(noun)

The National Americanization Committee (NAC), directed by Frances Kellor, was by far the most important private organization in the movement to address the issue of the political loyalties of immigrants, whether to the United States or to their mother countries, and subsequent tension regarding full assimilation into American society and its long-term importance to the nation.

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  • Americanization and Pluralism

    • The most significant private organization in this effort was the National Americanization Committee (NAC), which operated under the direction of Frances Kellor, who in 1909 served as secretary and treasurer of the New York State Immigration Commission before becoming chief investigator for New York State’s Bureau of Industries and Immigration from 1910 to 1913.
    • She also worked as managing director of the North American Civil League for Immigrants and was involved in the American Association of Foreign Language Newspapers, which linked American advertisers and foreign-language newspapers for immigrants, and the Progressive National Committee, a political organizing group for Theodore Roosevelt’s Progressive Party.
    • Ultimately, Kellor said, Americanization would "unite foreign-born and native alike in enthusiastic loyalty to our national ideals of liberty and justice."
    • The National Americanization Committee, led by Kellor, was one of the most significant private organizations working toward Americanization.
    • Describe the rationale behind the "Americanization" of immigrants by the National Americanization Committee and the Committee for Immigrants in America.

  • Coercive Patriotism

    • The states set up programs through their Councils of National Defense.
    • The most important private organization was the National Americanization Committee (NAC) directed by Frances Kellor .
    • Second in importance was the Committee for Immigrants in America, which helped fund the Division of Immigrant Education in the federal Bureau of Education.
    • A phobia of anything German engulfed the nation .
    • The National Americanization Committee, led by Kellor, was one of the most important private organizations working towards Americanization.

  • The Populist Party and the Election of 1896

    • He gave speeches, organized meetings, and adopted resounding resolutions that eventually culminated in the founding of the American Bimetallic League, which then evolved into the National Bimetallic Union, and finally the National Silver Committee.
    • The ultimate goal of the League was to garner support on a national level for the reinstatement of the coinage of silver.
    • Jones of the St Louis Post-Dispatch was put on the platform committee and Bryan's plank for free silver was adopted sixteen to one, and silently added to the Chicago Democratic Platform in order to avoid controversy.
    • As a minority member of the resolutions committee, Bryan was able to push the Democratic Party from its laissez-faire and small-government roots towards its modern, liberal character.

  • Civil Rights

    • First, he created the President's Committee on Civil Rights by Executive Order 9808 on December 5, 1946.
    • A third, in 1951, established the Committee on Government Contract Compliance (CGCC).
    • This committee ensured that defense contractors did not discriminate because of race.
    • The far-reaching effects that the committee had hoped for had little impact on the civil rights of Black Americans in the late 1940s.
    • In the 1960s, he helped establish the Freedom National Bank, an African-American-owned financial institution based in Harlem, New York.

  • Black Power

    • Thousands of businesses were destroyed, and, by the time the violence ended, 34 people were dead, most of them African Americans killed by the Los Angeles police and the National Guard.
    • The Nation of Islam advocated the separation of white Americans and African Americans because of a belief that African Americans could not thrive in an atmosphere of white racism.
    • In 1964, after a trip to Africa, Malcolm X left the Nation of Islam to found the Organization of Afro-American Unity with the goal of achieving freedom, justice, and equality “by any means necessary.”
    • Smith and Carlos were immediately ejected from the games by the United States Olympic Committee, and the International Olympic Committee would later issue a permanent lifetime ban for the two.
    • Unlike Carmichael and the Nation of Islam, most Black Power advocates did not believe African Americans needed to separate themselves from white society.

  • The Great Steel Strike

    • To encourage more organizing, the AFL formed a National Committee for Organizing the Iron and Steel Workers.
    • The National Committee debated the strike issue, and agreed to begin a general steelworker strike in September 1919 .
    • As the strike deadline approached, the National Committee attempted to negotiate with the U.S.
    • Between 30,000 and 40,000 unskilled African-American and Mexican American workers were brought to work in the mills.
    • By the end of November, most workers were back at their jobs and the National Committee had ceased operating.

  • Women of the Civil Rights Movement

    • She was instrumental in organizing Mississippi's Freedom Summer for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1964, and later became the vice-chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which she represented at the 1964 Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
    • She remained active and was on the National Board of the NAACP until 1970.
    • Johnson to appoint African-American women to positions in government.
    • Height served on a number of committees, including as a consultant on African affairs to the Secretary of State, the President's Committee on the Employment of the Handicapped, and the President's Committee on the Status of Women.
    • In 1990, Height, along with 15 other African Americans, formed the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom.

  • The Revolution and Churches

    • Ministers served the American cause in many capacities during the Revolution: as military chaplains, as scribes for committees of correspondence, and as members of state legislatures, constitutional conventions, and the Continental Congress.
    • The Revolution strengthened millennialist strains in American theology.
    • This attitude, combined with a groundswell of secular optimism about the future of America helped to create the buoyant mood of the new nation that became so evident after Jefferson assumed the presidency in 1801.
    • In 1776, these enemies were American soldiers, as well as friends and neighbors of American parishioners of the Church of England.
    • Discuss the role that religious leaders played in the American Revolution.

  • Minorities and the New Deal

    • The 1941 Executive Order 8802 banned racial discrimination in the national defense industry.
    • The 1933 National Recovery Administration, the main First New Deal agency responsible for industrial recovery, had hardly anything to offer to African Americans as National Industrial Recovery Act's (NIRA) provisions covered the industries, from which black workers were usually excluded.
    • The Fair Employment Practice Committee was established to investigate alleged violations and "to take appropriate steps to redress grievances which it finds to be valid."
    • The Committee would also make recommendations to federal agencies and to the President on how Executive Order 8802 could be made most effective.
    • The nation's oldest black collegiate fraternity, Alpha Phi Alpha, took on the case of Pearson v.

  • War Propaganda

    • War propaganda campaigns by the Creel Committee and Hollywood influenced American views on World War I.
    • Hoping to influence public opinion favorably toward American participation in World War I, President Woodrow Wilson established the Committee on Public Information (CPI) through Executive Order 2594 on April 13, 1917.
    • In one example, Irish-American tenor John McCormack sang at Mount Vernon before an audience representing Irish-American organizations.
    • Endorsed by labor union leader Samuel Gompers, the committee also targeted American workers, filling factories and offices with posters designed to promote the critical role of American labor in a successful war effort.
    • Describe how the Committee on Public Information used propaganda to influence American public opinion toward supporting U.S. participation in the war