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Chicago Peril to Immigrant Girls, March 24, 1911
Addams discusses the perils that face immigrant women and the need for protections.
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Jane Addams to Edwin Erle Sparks, June 21, 1903
Addams writes to Sparks regarding her place on a local committee dedicated to foreigner's affairs
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The Girl Problem: Its Community Aspects, April, 1914
Addams explains how communities needs to provide more for the youths that live there, and how there really is not a girl problem, but a problem with how all youths are handled.
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Immigrant Woman As She Adjusts Herself to American Life, June 10, 1914
Addams speaks to the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs on how clubs can help immigrant women adjust to life in America.
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Speech to the Civic and Commerce Association, May 1, 1912 (excerpts)
A newspaper report of Addams' speech before the Civic and Commerce Association in which she discusses the benefits of social centers.
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We Must Go Man Hunting (excerpt), April 26, 1908
Addams speaks for the value of immigrants to American society. This article was drawn from a speech.
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The Social Value of the Immigrant, March 14, 1908 (excerpt)
Addams discusses the benefits of suffrage and how the vote will benefit immigrant women living in tenement houses. This lecture was made before the Ethical Culture Society at New Century Hall in Philadelphia on March 14, 1908 and published later.
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The Possibilities of the American Immigrant, September 28, 1907 (excerpt)
In a speech at Carnegie Music Hall, Addams discusses immigrants to America and the work ethic of Chicago immigrants.
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Protect Our Immigrants is Jane Addams' Plea, September 28, 1912
Addams describes the Progressive Party's pledge to support new immigrants by creating protection for industrial laborers. This is a flyer version of an article put out by the Progressive Party.
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Miss Addams, May 1913
Addams offers a counter narrative to the idea that the U.S. government should limit immigration, arguing that immigrants provide benefits to society and are deserving of protections under the law. This is the fifth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's role to affect change.
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The Protection of Immigrants, January 17, 1913
Addams offers a counter narrative to the idea that the U.S. government should limit immigration, arguing that immigrants provide benefits to society and are deserving of protections under the law.
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Pen and Book as Tests of Character, January 4, 1913
Addams provides an argument against literacy tests for immigrants, proposed by the Burnett Bill recently pased by the U.S. House of Representatives.
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The Communion of the Ballot, December 14, 1912 (excerpt)
An excerpt from Addams' November 24 speech to the National Woman Suffrage Association meeting highlights her ideas about mother's pensions, immigrant socialization, and recreation.
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The Communion of the Ballot, November 24, 1912
Addams' keynote address before the National American Woman Suffrage Association meeting in Philadelphia argues that women must have the ballot in order to maintain their moral and familial role for the betterment of society.
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The Progressive's Dilemma: The New Party, November 1912
Addams defends the planks of the Progressive Party's platform by giving evidence from her experience.
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Jane Addams Tells of Progressive Plans to Protect the Immigrants, September 29, 1912
Addams describes the Progressive Party's pledge to support new immigrants by creating protection for industrial laborers.
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The Progressive Party and the Protection of Immigrants, August-September 1912
Addams describes the Progressive Party's pledge to support new immigrants by creating protection for industrial laborers. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.
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Modern Philanthropy and the Child, May 22, 1906
Addams discusses the value of playgrounds for urban children, emphasizing the situation for youth in London.
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The Home Life of the Child in the Congested Districts, September 24, 1905 (excerpt)
Addams speaks to the Chicago Normal School about the relationship between immigrant parents and their school-aged children.
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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.
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Address on Civic Associations, January 12, 1912 (excerpts)
An excerpt from Addams's remarks at a January 12 City Club Housewarming, focused on Civic Associations' Night, where she discusses how civic associations can be bridges to connect diverse communities.
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The Right to Petition, ca. January 25, 1912
Addams argues for the right to petition in regard to the Fred Guelzow murder case and the death sentences of the four defendants. She is particularly adamant on behalf of the minor defendant.
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The Hull-House Labor Museum, May 16, 1911
Addams' speech at the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, on the Hull-House Labor Museum's exhibit. It was published in 1912.
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The Child at the Point of Greatest Pressure, June 16, 1912
On the opening night of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Cleveland from June 12-19, Addams discusses how the difficulties of children can rouse society's greatest sentiments for charity, but that children also have for their own intrinsic value. The speech was published in the Proceedings.
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Social Immoralities, August 4, 1907
Addams argues for the creation of entertainments for urban dwellers for recreation and relaxation. This is an excerpt from her speech, Public Recreation and Social Morality.
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Advantages and Disadvantages of a Broken Inheritance, May 26, 1908
In this address given at the 13th Annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems held at Atlanta University, Addams discusses the difficulties immigrants face in Chicago.
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The Chicago Settlements and Social Unrest, May 2, 1908
Addams discusses the association in the public eye between settlements and immigrants and when immigrants are involved in high profile crimes, settlements are accused of supporting anarchism. Addams defends the role of the settlement as the bridge between immigrant communities and the American public, holding that it does not change in times of crisis.
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Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908
In this address, delivered for the Merrick Lectures, 1907-8, Addams describes the difficulty immigrant women face as they try to assimilate into American life.
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Value of the Immigrant, April 5, 1908 (excerpt)
Addams urges the public to have a better understanding of the immigrant so as to benefit from their often unseen wisdom and culture.
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A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil, Chapter I, November 1911
Arguing that white slavery requires an organized movement to defeat it, Addams provides examples from cases in Chicago. This is the first in a five-part series, which would ultimately be published as A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil in 1912.