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The Message of a Good Woman: Review of Democracy and Social Ethics, April 16, 1902

Newspaper clipping of a review ofDemocracy and Social Ethics.

The Business Woman's Opportunity for Philanthropy, November 19, 1901

Newspaper coverage of Addams' November 19 address to the Chicago Business Woman's Club linking child labor to laziness in adults.

Child Labor Hull-House Lectures Philanthropy

Statement on Tenement Housing in Chicago, May 1, 1901

Addams reports on the recommendations of the City Homes Association in regard to the building of tenement houses in Chicago.

Housing Hull-House Lectures Poverty

Social Regeneration, December 7, 1903 (summary)

The Chicago Daily Tribune, summarizes Addams' talk to the Chicago Bureau of Charities on the morality of charity.

Charity Lectures Poverty

Address at Memorial for Teachers Who Perished in the Iroquois Theatre Fire, January 16, 1904 (excerpt)

Addams spoke at a memorial meeting for Iroquois Theater fire victims, organized by the Chicago Teacher's Federation, about the dangers of overlooking violations in fear of being seen as bad people.

Death Lectures

Address at Meeting for Catherine Breshkovsky, January 22, 1905 (excerpt)

Addams spoke at a meeting of Chicago Russians to hear Madame Katherine Breshkovsky speak on Russian freedom.

Lectures Peace Russia

Jane Addams et al. to Emmeline Pankhurst, October 19, 1913

Addams and other Chicago women send a message to Emmeline Pankhurst in solidarity with her, appalled at her detention at Ellis Island.

Government Immigration Woman Suffrage

Summary of Jane Addams et al. to Woodrow Wilson, October 19, 1913

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

Civil Rights Government Woman Suffrage

Address to the Merchant's Club, March 8, 1902

With Maud Booth, Addams addresses the Merchant's Club, appealing for aid in helping criminals and rescuing boys who may become criminals.

Child Welfare Courts Crime Immigrants Lectures Poverty

Address to the Traction Commission of the Council, January 4, 1902

Addams speaks to the Traction Commission, representing the working people living in the 19th Ward and seeking a reduction of public transportation fares.

Labor Lectures Transportation

Address to Merchant's Club, March 8, 1902

With Maud Booth, Addams addresses the Merchant's Club, appealing for aid in helping criminals and rescuing boys who may become criminals.

Crime Crime Enforcement Poverty

Address to Hull House Woman's Club, April 16, 1902

Addams reports about Chicago's reputation on the East Coast as a dirty city.

Hull-House Lectures Sanitation

Address on Costs of Child Insurance. January 4, 1903

Addams discusses the pros and cons of child insurance.

Child Welfare Children Lectures

Address to the Stewart Avenue Universalist Church, January 4, 1903 (excerpt)

Newspaper summary of Addams' speech on child labor and the need for new laws.

Child Labor Lectures Manufacturing

Address on Swedish Famine, February 19, 1903 (excerpt)

Addams calls for a charitable response to aid the famine sufferers in Sweden, discussing the different kinds of charitable work in education and relief.

Charity Education Relief Efforts Sweden

Peace and War, September 16, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams suggests sending peacemakers rather than warships to Turkey.

Lectures Peace Politics War

Statement on Child Labor and the Plight of Orphans, June 4, 1903 (excerpt)

Newspaper account of Addams' statement on raising of women's clubs funds to support child care for widows attending school.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Newer Ideals of Education as Affecting National Life, June 17, 1903 (excerpt)

Addams delivered the commencement speech at Rockford College, arguing that a lack of growth was a danger to moral life of individual and nation.

Education Lectures Morality Peace War

Idea of the Social Settlement, July 12, 1903 (excerpt)

An excerpt of Addams' talk at "Settlement Sunday," held at the University of Chicago.

Education Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement

Comments on High Schools, November 5, 1903

Addams calls for more high schools to make it easier for children to continue their education.

Children Education

Statement on Charges Against Hull-House, November 11, 1903

Addams denies an accusation that Hull-House turned away a woman appealing for help.

Charity Criticism Health Hull-House

Address to the Chicago Woman's Club, November 11, 1903

Addams speaks about women reformers' duty to treat the unfortunate with compassion and not contempt.

Charity

Why Women Should Vote, February 4, 1912 (excerpt)

The Chicago Tribunepublished an excerpted version of Addams' speech on woman suffrage in Madison, Wisconsin, on January 23, 1912.

Labor Lectures Politics Social Reform Woman Suffrage

The Worst Phases of Wife Desertion, April 8, 1906

Addams discusses the prevalence of wife desertion among Jewish and Italian men in the Hull-House neighborhood.

Immigrants

Some Aspects of Child Labor Under the Present Illinois Law, March 4, 1906 (excerpts)

Addams presents reasons to oppose the employment of young children in the theater.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Traditional Housekeeping and Pure Food, February 17, 1906

At a joint meeting of the Consumers League and General Federation of Women's Clubs, Addams argues for the passage of the Heyburn Pure Food Bill in Congress.

Lectures Public Health Woman Suffrage

Testimony Before State Judicial Committee on Child Labor, April 13, 1905 (excerpts)

Addams testifies that the system of child labor destroys genius, and how work on the stage damages children.

Child Labor Children Illinois Legislation Theater

Comments at the Commercial Club Dinner, April 28, 1906 (excerpts)

Addams and Edward Dunne speak on Chicago's capacity to fund recreation and park spaces.

Juvenile Delinquency Lectures Philanthropy Recreation Youth

Child Labor a Social Waste, March 19, 1905

At the Saints Peter and Paul Episcopal Church, Addams argues against child labor.

Child Labor Lectures

Jane Addams Talks for Peace, January 23, 1905

At a rally organized by Catherine Breshkovsky to raise support for Russia, Addams speaks about peace and revolution.

Lectures Peace Politics Russia

Charity and Its Motives as Seen by Jane Addams, November 14, 1902

Addams holds that charitable work enables a better understanding of the poor, at a meeting of the Illinois Board of Charities and the Men's Club of the Fourth Presbyterian Church.

Charity Child Labor Lectures

Comments at National Juvenile Protection Association Founding, June 9, 1906 (excerpt)

At the inaugural meeting of the National Juvenile Protection Association held at Hull-House, Addams argues that the police should become educated about the needs of children.

Crime Juvenile Delinquency Lectures

The Relation of Club Women to Social Problems, April 15, 1905 (excerpt)

In a speech before the Chicago Women's Association. Addams complains that college women are disinclined toward philanthropy.

Education Gender Roles Lectures Philanthropy Social Reform

Statement on Recreation Piers, April 11, 1909 (excerpt)

Addams advocates for public recreational spaces for the benefit of all.

Children Lectures Public Works Recreation

The Reaction of Moral Instruction upon Social Reform, April 4, 1909 (excerpt)

Addams speaks to the Chicago Sinai congregation on the value of theater for moral teaching of the young.

Children Education Lectures Morality Theater

Comments on Louis Satt Case, January 14, 1909 (excerpt)

Addams weighs in on the sentencing of Louis Satt, the brother of a Hull-House student.

Crime Hull-House

Speech to Chicago Sunday Evening Club (Excerpt), October 9, 1910

Newspaper report of Addams' speech on the need for entertainments among the poor in Chicago. The speech was given for the Sunday Evening Club.

Crime Lectures Poverty Recreation Youth

Some of the Immediate Needs of Chicago March 20, 1911 (excerpts)

Addams speaks at the Chicago Credit Men's Association about the dangers of unregulated dance halls for Chicago's youth.

Juvenile Delinquency Lectures Morality Recreation Youth

Testimony on Child Labor on the Stage, March 8, 1911 (excerpt)

In a report on her testimony before the Illinois Senate Judiciary committee, Addams argues that life on the stages poses dangers to child actors.

Child Labor Theater

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Speech to the Wisconsin Woman's Suffrage Association, January 26, 1912 (excerpts)

A newspaper report of Addams's speech to the Milwaukee branch of the Wisconsin Woman Suffrage Association, which uses humor to render the male arguments against woman suffrage absurd. A version of this speech was later published in theLadies' Home…

Child Labor Gender Roles Labor Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Newer Aspects of the Peace Movement, May 19, 1912 (excerpts)

Newspaper report of Addams's speech before the Sunday Evening Club discussing new ideas about how to promote peace.

Economics Lectures Military Peace War

Speech to the Advertisers' Club, November 21, 1913 (excerpt)

Addams speaks before the Advertisers' Club of an incident that happened at Hull-House.

Children Lectures Morality

Speech at the National American Woman Suffrage Convention, November 30, 1913 (excerpts)

Portions of Addams's address to NAWSA meeting held in Washington, D. C. in which she highlights impact of women voters abroad.

Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage

Speech to the Chicago Woman's Club, February 4, 1914

Addams discusses the juvenile crime rate in Chicago.

Crime Lectures Police Youth

Jane Addams Speaks, April 6, 1914

Addams endorses Harriet Vittum, who campaigned for the Board of Aldermans in the Seventeenth ward of Chicago.

Gender Roles Politics

Women's Clubs and Public Progress, June 10, 1914

Addams talks about the benefits of woman suffrage for the entire country.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

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Speech to Chicago Bar Association, April 22, 1914 (excerpt)

An excerpt from Addams's talk to the Chicago Bar Association on the causes of juvenile delinquency. Dr. William Krohn also spoke on the topic.

Education Juvenile Delinquency Lectures

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

Miss Addams and Preparedness, November 18, 1915

Addams states her opinion on military preparedness in the Chicago Tribune.

Foreign Policy Military Preparedness War World War I

Jane Addams to the Chicago Tribune, December 16, 1921

Addams provides the Tribune with details of the resolutions passed at the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's United States Section's Mass Meeting and discusses the parade. The Tribune includes a quote from the statement that Addams…

Conferences Criticism Disarmament Journalism Peace

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