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The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the need to understand the poor in order to solve the problems of poverty.

Charity Immigrants Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement Social Work

The World's Food Supply and the World's Politics, November 9, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the food situation in Europe as a grim specter over any attempts at peace. This speech was delivered as part of the Social Welfare Conference at the Elm Street Church in Chillicothe.. MO

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts World War I

Statement on Child Labor at the Hull House Summer School, July 3, 1902

Addams discusses child labor, the topic of an upcoming lecture at the Summer School.

Child Labor Education Hull-House Lectures

Speech to the Missouri State Teachers Association, November 8, 1919 (summary)

Addams discussed the conditions in post-war Europe to the Missouri State Teachers Association at the Auditorium.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts

Address to the International Congress of Working Women, October 31, 1919

Addams discusses the importance of including women in labor conferences and organizing and congratulates them on their efforts.

Internationalism Labor Lectures Women

Address to the Social Workers' Club of Detroit, January 25, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams describes the conditions in Europe after the war.

Food Shortages Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

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

Statement in the Disappearance of Jeanne DeKay, January 22, 1920

Addams doubts that a girl held in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay is the heiress.

Crime Hull-House

Statement of the Disappearance of Jeanne DeKay, January 20, 1920

Addams tells the press that the woman pretending to be the missing DeKay is an adventuress.

Crime Hull-House

Statement on Child Labor Day, January 20, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams supports the idea of a day set aside to discuss child labor reforms.

Child Labor Lectures

Address to the Badger Club, January 19, 1920

Addams discusses efforts to save starving children in Europe.

Europe Lectures Relief Efforts

Statement on the Disappearance of Jeanne DeKay, January 12, 1920

Newspaper story about the latest in the disappearance of Jeanne DeKay contains a short statement about the case by Addams.

Crime Hull-House

Address to Physicians, ca. January 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the beneficial effect of hard work on the morality of youth.

Labor Lectures Youth

Statement on the Execution of Raffilo Durange, January 1, 1920

Addams protests the execution by hanging in front of 200 prisoners as savage.

Crime Law

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 21, 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

Comments at National American Woman Suffrage Association Victory Convention, February 13, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams argues that with suffrage won, a new era in legislation will follow.

Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Jane Addams to Emily Greene Balch, February 22, 1920

Addams tells Balch that she cannot travel to Europe this year.

Peace Travels

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 21, 1920 (excerpts)

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

Anti-radicalism Government Immigrants Lectures

Nationalism, a Dogma?, February 7, 1920

Addams warns of the dangers of the new nationalistic favor sweeping the world following the war. This article was a version of her speech to the American Sociological Society on December 29, 1919.

Articles Europe Nationalism Politics