In the Fall of 1935, President Roosevelt made the first allotment of funds to the Office of Education for educational broadcasting. In discussing the idea, he emphasized the need for programs that would make more significant the human struggle to achieve our freedom as safeguarded by our Constitution; the values of inter-American understanding and friendship; and the processes of building a finer and more enduring American culture by developing a greater appreciation of the rich heritages that have come to us through the many races and nationalities which make up our population.

Hence, the first series, “Let Freedom Ring,” traced the evolution of human freedom and presented the contributions which old-world settlers had made to our conception of civil liberty. Then came “Brave New World,” portraying the Latin-American contributions to democracy and to the general culture of the Americas. In April, 1938, the President in addressing the Daughters of the American Revolution unknowingly gave the title to the series “Americans All—Immigrants All” when he said, “Remember that all of us are descended from immigrants.”

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