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Trotter praises Addams' public opposition to the exclusion of black delegates at the Progressive Party Convention and asks her to consider opposing Theodore Roosevelt.

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Walling invites Addams to join the permanent committee created from the Conference on the Status of the Negro.

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Walling asks Addams to reconsider his offer to participate in a conference on African-Americans and asks for her help in securing others to support it.

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Venerable asks Addams for her support in the development of a Tuskegee-like school in the Midwest.

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White tells Addams that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People decided to fund the Pan-African Congress and asks for her contribution.

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Du Bois invites Addams to speak for twenty minutes at the Tenth Annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems.

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Allain asks Addams why the Progressive Party Platform abandoned African Americans.

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Partial galley proof of Addams's article about her experiences at the Progressive Party Convention, discussing how items were added to its platform, particularly labor and military planks, and her dismay about the conventions unjust treatment of African-Americans.

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Addams explains her support of African-American delegates at the the Progressive Party Convention in Chicago. This article, which appeared in The Crisis, was one of a series of articles she prepared for the election of 1912.

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Addams reports on the Progressive Party Convention, discussing how items were added to its platform, particularly labor and military planks, and her dismay about the conventions unjust treatment of African-Americans. This is one of a series of articles she prepared as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

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Addams criticizes the film Birth of a Nation as unjust and untrue and designed to foster race prejudice.

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

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Addams advises the Association on setting up a settlement house for African-Americans in Washington, DC.

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Addams writes about the strong racism asserting itself in America, blaming it on segregation and the lack of interaction between white and black people.

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Addams' secretary tells Washington that she has included describing that Addams suggested her to become president of the National Association of Colored Women.

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Addams' argues that mob violence, and particularly lynching against African Americans in the South, erodes respect for the all among all groups and accomplishes nothing positive for any community that condones it.

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Kellogg compliments Addams for her editorial on the Emancipation Proclamation in The Survey and sends her twenty-five extra copies.

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Mossell praises Addams for standing up for black suffrage and asks her to continue her support in the Progressive Party.

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Shaw asks Addams and Villard to investigate Black lynchings once their inquiry on Ireland is completed.

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McDowell complains to Addams that Roosevelt made a mistake by courting white Southerners and ignoring the needs of southern African-Americans.

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Addams discusses her impressions of the campaign and election results in a speech to the City Club on November 13; the report of the event was published on November 27. Other speakers at the event were not included.

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Jones reacts to an article that Addams sent him on the Progressive Party, focusing on her statements about African Americans and the peace movement.

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Addams declines Du Bois invitation to the Atlanta Conference on Negro Problems due to a glut of commencement speeches on her schedule.

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Addams sends Breckinridge three letters about lynchings, including one from Oswald Garrison Villard that encloses a newspaper clipping about a brutal lynching in Florida.

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Addams tells Breckinridge that she has doubts that discrimination against African-Americans in the federal government is increasing.

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Addams notes that she sent Haldeman a copy of Du Bois' "Souls of the Black Folk," and asks after Marcet's health.

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Addams thanks Baker for sending her a copy of his book, Following the Color Line: An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy.

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Addams thanks Ovington for sending a book.

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Addams reports on events in New Orleans at the Methodist Missionary Conference, including attending a talk by Booker T. Washington. She also writes about changes in her travel plans and how she wishes that Smith was with her.

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Addams notes a discussion in the news about creating segregated schools and is calling a meeting at Hull-House to discuss it.

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Addams praises Johnson for God's Trombones, his book of poems.

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Addams sends Arthur information about the International Congress of Women and hopes that he will support Addie Hunton's travel costs.

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Addams denies that she is pro-German.

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Addams writes Crane about a misunderstanding in regard to the leadership of the National American Woman Suffrage Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.

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Addams urges Blaine to support the Chicago Urban League.

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Addams asks Blaine to assist Oswald Villard with the organization of Chicago efforts related to the Association of the Advancement of Colored People.

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Addams asks Blaine for a donation to support an African American settlement in Chicago.

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Addams asks Woods about a small fund drive to cover printing costs and inviting more Black pacifists to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

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Addams asks Stern to consider funding Addie Hunton's travel to Europe to attend the International Congress of Women.

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Addams tells Kennedy about discussions on sites for the Settlement conference that are friendly to African-Americans.

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Durkee tells Addams that Howard University is willing to host delegates from the International Congress of Women.

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Feld gives her impressions of an interview with Addams at at Hull House.

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The Association thanks Addams for her courageous appeal for black suffrage.

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Addams chastises American society for failing to live up to the ideals of the Emancipation Proclamation and demands political equality for black Americans.

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Addams chastises American society for failing to live up to the ideals of the Emancipation Proclamation and demands political equality for black Americans.

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Pinkett praises Addams' defense of immigrants in her article in Charities and Commons and relates the persecution of immigrants to that of African-Americans.

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Rice tells Addams that she missed seeing her, and reflects on her time at Hull-House.

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Hawkins praises Addams' Twenty Years at Hull House and asks her to donate a copy to the black Social Settlement in Washington, D.C.

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Deknatel writes on Addams behalf, disputing an article which states that she is in favor of lynching African-Americans.

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Wells informs Ware that Addams is out of the city, and his letter has been given to Sophonisba Breckenridge, who in interested in the advancement of African-Americans.

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