Write a letter to your children (who will read it once you’ve gone to your final reward) reflecting on your life as a woman, a person of color, a Native American, an immigrant, a person with a disability, or just plain poor in this age of equality.

The rise of Jacksonian democracy and the Democratic Party is widely hailed as the “Age of the Common Man.” Perhaps… Assume that you are a member of the proletariat, the great unwashed, the “hoi polloi”- you get the idea – one of the Jackson’s “Common Men (or Women)”, and you are on your deathbed. Write a letter to your children (who will read it once you’ve gone to your final reward) reflecting on your life as a woman, a person of color, a Native American, an immigrant, a person with a disability, or just plain poor in this age of equality