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Comment on Corporal Punishment, March 14, 1902

Addams responds to judges ordering parents to administer corporal punishment to juvenile delinquents. This was part of a longer new article.

Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Youth

Address to Franklin Street Settlement, March 17, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams speaks to the Franklin Street Settlement in Detroit about working in a settlement.

Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement

Address to B'rith Kodesh Temple, March 18, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the formation and goals of Hull-House in a speech to the B'rith Kodesh Temple.

Biography Lectures Settlement Movement

Amusement for the People, March 25, 1902 Also known as Address to the Charity Organization Society, March 25, 1902

Addams addresses a meeting at the United Charities building in New York and discusses how Hull-House makes use of its theater.

Lectures Theater

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.

New Ideals of Peace, March 30, 1902 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Ethical Cultural Society, March 30, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams addresses the Ethical Culture Society about those who oppose war, specifically those who believe that war is unnatural.

Internationalism Lectures Peace War

Address to the Chicago Business Women's Club, April, 1902

Addams addresses the Chicago Business Women's Club on factors that may cause children to grow into "tramps."

Child Labor Child Welfare Crime Lectures

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, April 11, 1902

Addams writes Smith about her various activities and reports on a visit with Smith's parents in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

Family Travels Writing

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

Newspaper clipping of a review of Democracy and Social Ethics.

Books Gambling Praise

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

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

Lectures Prohibition Sanitation

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

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, May 3, 1902

Addams writes Smith, relating details of her daily life in Smith's absence.

Travels

Address to Los Angeles YWCA, May 4, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams' discusses child labor before the Los Angeles YWCA.

Child Labor Lectures

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

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 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

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

To Aid Craftsmen, August 15, 1902

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

Hull-House Immigrants Labor

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

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

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

Addams discusses the education of immigrants

Education Immigrants Lectures

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

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

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

Addams discusses the benefits to having a referendum system.

Democracy Government Lectures

Comments on Child Labor, November 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discussed the ills of child labor at a meeting of interested people in Chicago.

Child Labor Lectures

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

Elbridge Gerry Keith to Jane Addams, November 15, 1902

Keith writes to Addams about the Chicago Board of Education.

Education Labor

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

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

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

Audience Questions after The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902

Addams and Dibble argue about the nature of the poor after she gives her speech.

Lectures Poverty Public Opinion

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 Pilgrim Congregational Church, November 24, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses means of closing the divide between capitalist and trade unions.

Business Education Labor Lectures

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

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

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

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

Jane Addams to Wallace Rice, December 30, 1902

Addams seeks a lecture on the Poetry of Labor or the Poetry of Revolt for Hull-House.

Labor Poetry Requests

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

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 to the Chicago Business Women's Club, January 13, 1903 (excerpt)

Newspaper summary of Addams' talk describing child labor in the Southern factories.

Child Labor Child Welfare Lectures Manufacturing

Comments at a Kitchen Symposium at the Hull-House Woman's Club, January 22, 1903 (excerpt)

Excerpts of Addams' comments during a presentation on model kitchens held at Hull-House's Woman's Club.

Lectures

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

Statement on Italian Immigrants at Hull-House, February 3, 1903

Addams summarizes the life and background of Italian immigrants living in Chicago.

Immigrants Italy

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