The Constitution Reader

X. Institutionalizing Progressivism:  The New Deal, the Great Society, and Beyond

Franklin Roosevelt, Commonwealth Club Address, 1932 (PDF) (DOC)

Franklin Roosevelt, Acceptance Speech, 1936 (PDF) (DOC)

Franklin Roosevelt, Annual Message to Congress, 1944 (PDF) (DOC)

John F. Kennedy, Commencement Address at Yale, 1962 (PDF) (DOC)

Lyndon B. Johnson, Remarks at the University of Michigan, 1964 (PDF) (DOC)

Lyndon B. Johnson, Commencement Address at Howard University, 1965 (PDF) (DOC)

Plessy v. Ferguson, 1896 (PDF) (DOC)

Brown v. Board of Education, 1954 (excerpt) (PDF) (DOC)

Grutter v. Bollinger, 2003 (excerpts) (PDF) (DOC)

Ronald Reagan, "A Time for Choosing," 1964 (PDF) (DOC)