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Statement on Widows Pensions, October 28, 1903

Addams discusses which widows can be granted scholarships for their children.

Child Welfare Education Women

Lecture to the Henry George Association, October 29, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams urges universal disarmament of nations, and the substitution of moral influence for war.

China Lectures Peace

Statement on High Schools, November 4, 1903

Addams argues for more high schools with better furnishings.

Children Education

Statement on Carrying Concealed Weapons, December 22, 1903 (excerpt)

Addams opposes citizens carrying concealed weapons.

Crime Legislation

Social Science, January 28, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the different methods of social work and describes how the settlement works to help society.

Child Labor Child Welfare Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement Settlements Social Work

Lecture to the Fortnightly Club, March 6, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams details the evils of child labor and efforts to abolish it in Illinois.

Child Labor Child Welfare Lectures Legislation

Comments on Child Labor, March 15, 1903 (excerpt)

Addams notes that immigrant families are used to having children work but do not see the difference between farm and factory work.

Child Labor Child Welfare Immigrants Lectures

Interview with the Boston Globe, March 24, 1903

Addams describes social settlement work and its impact on immigrant neighborhoods.

Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement

The Newer Ideals as They Are Affecting Life, April 11, 1903 (excerpt)

Addams discusses her experiences with immigrants in a talk to the Cook County Teachers' Association.

Children Education Immigrants Lectures

Address to Hull-House Woman's Club, October 9, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the evils of the sweatshop system and urges women to look for the union label when shopping for goods.

Labor Lectures

Municipal Suffrage, March 6, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Lake View Women's Club, March 6, 1906 (excerpt)

Addams gave an address to the Lake View Women's Club about her views on woman suffrage at the municipal level of government.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Statement on Open Separation Contract, December 30, 1902

Addams refuses to be quoted about Frances Dickinson's ideas about marriage by contract.

Lectures Marital Relations

Social Results of the New Education, December 18, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the problems of child labor in relation to compulsory education.

Child Labor Education Lectures Onsite

Statement on Women Workers Marriages, December 6, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams weighs in on the idea that women who work in household service are more likely to marry more frequently and in better circumstance. This is part of a longer article.

Labor Marital Relations

Social Results of Charitable Effort, December 1, 1902

Addams discusses efforts made to reach the needy through settlement work. She delivered this speech at the annual meeting of the Associated Charities.

Charity Hull-House Lectures Social Work

Club Women Urged to Visit Factories, Chicago Inter Ocean, November 16, 1902, p. 7..jpg

Speech to the Cook County League of Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams and De Bey urge Chicago clubwomen to visit factories to see the working conditions for children and discuss a measure that will make it more difficult to keep children out of school.

Child Labor Education Lectures Legislation

Speech to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902

Addams proposes changes to the child labor and compulsory education laws for endorsement to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Address to the Initiative and Referendum League, October 26, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the benefits to having a referendum system.

Democracy Government Lectures

Resolution Calling for Addams to be Appointed to the Arbitration Commission for the Miner's Strike, October 17, 1902

Reports the creation of a resolution by the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs to name Jane Addams to President Roosevelt's commission to settle a miner's strike.

Government Labor Requests

The Social Waste of Child Labor, October 4, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams exhorts members of the Chicago Political Equality League to work against child labor and towards educating the poor.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Speech to the Hull-House Woman's Club on Old Chicago, September 17, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams tells stories of pioneers in Chicago that her father told her.

History Lectures

Speech at the Child-Saving Conference, January 30, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams and Bodine discuss changes needed in compulsory education rules to make them more effective.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Address to the Hull-House Woman's Club, December 11, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams notes abuses of Hull-Houses day nurseries by lazy fathers whose wives have to work.

Charity Children Hull-House

Speech to the Chicago Business Woman's Club, November 19, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses woman's capacity for bad behavior and that women's philanthropy should be more active in areas like child labor.

Child Labor Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage

Speech to the American League of Civic Improvement, September, 24, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the education of immigrants

Education Immigrants Lectures

Statement at the Negro Exposition, August 27, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams attends the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Negro Exposition and comments that in future the work of women will equal that of men.

African-Americans

Reply to Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, August 17, 1902

Addams responds to Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews provocative statement that unmarried individuals "have no place in society nor in the scheme of the universe." This is part of a longer article that quotes many people.

Marital Relations Writings

To Aid Craftsmen, August 15, 1902

Addams discusses the Hull-House Labor Museum and the effect of factories on craftsmanship.

Hull-House Immigrants Labor

Lecture on Social Settlement System, July 28, 1902

Addams discusses the settlement house's role as a charity and the means by which it appeals to the poor. She spoke at the Decatur Chautauqua.

Charities Child Labor Lectures Settlement Movement Social Work

Speech to the League for Political Education, March 29, 1902 (excerpt)

A summary of Addams's speech on saloons before the League for Political Education in New York argues for limiting, not stopping, the sale of liquor.

Testimony on Chicago Building Ordinances, June 2, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the need for better building regulations to prevent tenement fires.

Housing Immigrants

Statement on Train Wreck, May 12, 1902

Addams reflects on the railroad crash she endured and gives her impressions of the General Federation of Women's Clubs meeting.

Conferences Health Transportation Travels

Tribute to John Peter Altgeld, March 14, 1902 (excerpt)

A description of services for John Altgeld, including quotes from Addams and Clarence Darrow's speeches.

Death Eulogies Lectures

Newer Ideals of Peace, February 28, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams answers questions from the audience about efforts to prevent war or national competition. The speech was given to the Daughters of the Revolution.

Lectures Peace War

School Halls to be Social Centers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 24, 1902, p. 3..jpg

Speech to the South Side League of Parents' Clubs Reunion, February 23, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the role of neighborhood centers can play in fostering community.

Child Welfare Education Lectures Recreation

Thoughts on the Comic Valentine, February 2, 1902

Addams dismisses comic valentines as coarse at a meeting of the Ravenswood Woman's Club.

Child Welfare Holidays Morality

Report of the International Congress of Women, December 1915

The International Congress of Women's report of activities including Jane Addams's address, resolutions, and a report of the work done by the delegations to European capitals.

Conferences Diplomacy Peace World War I