Let Us Break Bread Together

Jim Janssen, Superintendent of Schools of the City of New York. The film you're about to see tells the story of how the schools and community in one school

district are working together to build brotherhood. Their intervisitation program involves children and adults of different racial and cultural backgrounds. This partnership of all races, creeds and colors has made an entire school community a happier place in which to work and to live. New York has stood for several hundred years and still stands as the gateway to freedom and opportunity for thousands who seek to rebuild their lives

in a land where man has worked, and labor has big enough in it. Four among you can give some of the reasons why people left their native lands to come to the United States of America.

Many came because they wanted to be free to worship as they chose. Some came because they wanted to get away from the tyranny and cruelty of kings. My people are free now. They are proud to be American, but the lead growth were brought here by wicked men who traded in slang.

Japan is very overcrowded, so people have little land, so many Japanese came to this country because they wanted to farm. We came a little while ago from Puerto Rico. My father wanted work. He wants to give me and my brother a good education.

People from every nation settled the United States of America. The 8 million who live in New York City today are the descendants of original settlers or newcomers from all the corners of the earth. There are more Italians in New York City and in Florence Italy, more Chinese and in in many a town in China. More Negroes than in Monrovia or Liberia. It is hard to well