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Statement on Abraham Lincoln, February 12, 1922 (excerpt)

Addams comments about Lincoln during a meeting on the release of political prisoners.

Government Lectures Prisoners of War

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, March 23, 1920

Addams tells Kellogg that The Survey should be more forceful in its defense of Anita Whitney.

Free Speech Government Journalism

Statement on Theater Censorship, May 2, 1907 (excerpt)

Addams supports the idea of regulating theaters aimed at juvenile audiences, but not banning children from attending.

Censorship Morality Police Social Work Theater

Jane Addams to Hannah Clothier Hull, March 11, 1920

Addams tells Hull that she could speak with Mitchell Palmer, but doubts it will be of use; she also invites the Hulls to visit Hull-House.

Anti-radicalism Hull-House Visits Requests

Speech to the American Friends Service Committee Reunion, June 24, 1920

Addams discusses changes in American civil liberties after World War I.

Free Speech Immigrants Lectures Nationalism Patriotism

Statement on the Auditorium Theater Meeting, January 24, 1920

Addams defends the Auditorium Theater event after hearing that the government might investigate.

Anti-radicalism Free Speech Government

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 22, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams and Catt opposes the efforts of the government to deport immigrant radicals because of their political beliefs.

Anti-radicalism Censorship Criticism Free Speech Government Immigrants Lectures

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 22, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams opposes the efforts of the government to deport immigrant radicals.

Anti-radicalism Government Immigrants Lectures

Jane Addams to Upton Sinclair, August 17, 1922

Addams tells Sinclair about a time when her suffrage speech was banned from the University of Michigan's campus.

Censorship Lectures Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Albert DeSilver, February 23, 1921

Addams tells De Silver not to use her name on an ACLU advertisement in support of an IWW case.

Civil Rights Requests

Jane Addams to Robert Alexander Gunn, February 18, 1920

Addams defends herself against Gunn's charges of radicalism.

Criticism

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, May 15, 1920

Addams sends Kellogg an article on free speech and notes the lack of publicity for it in the United States.

Free Speech

Jane Addams to Ernest Harvier, February 3, 1920

Addams tells Harvier that she believes the apathy regarding civil liberties is slowing declining.

Civil Rights Public Opinion

James Gorton to Jane Addams, February 23, 1920

Gorton supports Addams' remarks on the deportation of aliens and woman suffrage.

Anti-radicalism Free Speech Lectures Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Levi Hollingsworth Wood, January 8, 1920

Addams tells Wood that she will join the Civil Liberties Bureau, but questions whether national groups are as effective as local ones.

Civil Rights Memberships

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Roger Nash Baldwin, March 13, 1918

Karsten asks Baldwin not to use Addams's name with the Liberty Defense Union until she has agreed to have it used.

Civil Rights Memberships Requests

Jane Addams to Helen Phelps Stokes, October 16, 1918

Addams tells Stokes that she cannot leave Chicago to attend the National Civil Liberties Bureau meeting in Washington.

Civil Rights Requests

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, April 16, 1917

Addams and others ask Wilson to ensure that free speech and democratic values are not lost during the war.

Censorship Free Speech Government Peace World War I

Alice Stone Blackwell to Jane Addams, April 14, 1917

Blackwell sends Addams a reply from Catherine Breshkovsky. and applauds Addams' recent defense of free speech.

Free Speech Republican Party

Jane Addams to Woodrow Wilson, February 21, 1917

Addams calls Wilson's attention to a congressional bill on espionage which she believes threatens the freedoms of US citizens.

Democracy Free Speech Legislation Requests

The Immigrant and Social Unrest, April 19, 1920

Addams discusses the relationship between immigrants and social unrest. This speech was given at the National Conference on Social Work in New Orleans.

Anti-radicalism Censorship Democracy Free Speech Immigrants Immigration Labor Lectures Social Class Social Welfare Social Work

Address to Toledo Nurses on the European Food Shortage, 1920

Addams relays the food and medical crisis effecting postwar Europe to a audience of medical experts.

Germany Lectures Peace Relief Efforts Russia

Commentary on Jane Addams lettter, June 12, 1912

The Mirror publishes Addams' letter of May 4 and criticizes Addams support for censoring motion pictures.

Criticism Free Speech Theater

Testimony Before the House Judiciary Committee on the Espionage Bill, April 9, 1917

Addams testifies in opposition to a proposed bill that would censor anti-war speech before the House of Representatives Committee on Judiciary.

Censorship Free Speech Government Patriotism Peace World War I

Statement on Hull House Speakers, February 1, 1915 (excerpt)

Addams avows that there is no "blacklist" for speakers at Hull House, denying a rumor that radical thinkers were not welcome.

Free Speech Hull-House Labor Socialism

Jane Addams et al. to Louis Freeland Post, October 18, 1913

Addams and forty-five other women petition Post to halt the deportation of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Government Immigration Requests Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 18, 1913

Addams and forty-five other women petition Wilson to halt the deportation of Emmeline Pankhurst.

Government Immigration Requests Woman Suffrage

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