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The Value of the Parent Teacher Association, August 14, 1928 (summary)

Addams argues that the Parent Teacher Association serves as a bridge between foreign-born parents and their children.

Address to the Kansas City Conference of Social Workers, May 14, 1928 (excerpts)

Addams exhorts social workers to support a bill suspending immigration quota to allow family members of residents to join them.

Government Immigration Lectures Requests

Social Consequences of the Immigration Law, May 1927

Addams warns about the unforeseen social consequences of immigration laws.

Government Immigrants Immigration Law Lectures

Jane Addams to Edwin Rogers Embree and Alfred Kaufman Stern, July 16, 1929

Addams asks the Rosenwald Fund to support Anita Jones's work with Mexican immigrants in Chicago.

Chicago Hull-House Immigrants Mexico Philanthropy Requests

The Higher Patriotism, October 7, 1904

Addams defines a new patriotism as one that tries new things and takes risks to do what it right. The speech was given at the International Peace Conference in Boston.

Democracy Lectures Nationalism Onsite Patriotism Peace

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, May 21, 1929

Kellogg sends Addams a critique of her immigration chapter of the Second Twenty Years at Hull-House.

Immigration Writing

Jane Addams to Olive Hanson Rabe, June 12, 1929

Addams sends Rabe a resolution to amend the naturalization law and asks for help securing support.

Civil liberties Government Immigrants

Statement on High School Construction, February 27, 1927 (summary)

Addams and Howe urge the construction of a new junior-senior high school before the Chicago Board of Education.

Education

Jane Addams to Alvan Tufts Fuller, August 9, 1927

Addams appeals to Fuller to commute the death sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Government Immigrants Requests

Address to the Chicago League of Women Voters, December 12, 1925

Addams defends both the delinquent and immigrant girl in a speech to the League of Women Voters.

Immigrants Lectures Youth

Interview with Jane Addams, January 30, 1925

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

Biography Chicago Hull-House Race Settlements

Valentine Stuart McClatchy to Jane Addams, July 23, 1925

McClatchy asks Addams to oppose efforts to weaken immigration restrictions on Japan and to help them obtain more supporters among the clergy.

Immigration Japan Requests

Statement on Jewish Peddlers, June 2, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams offers sympathy to Jewish peddlers at a meeting of the Chicago Protective League. This was excerpted from a longer article about the event.

Immigrants Lectures

Jane Addams to Calvin Coolidge, April 15, 1924

Addams asks Coolidge to veto efforts to limit Japanese immigration to the United States.

Foreign Policy Immigration Peace Requests United States

The Modern Social Problem, March 24, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the ill effect of current immigration law before the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

Government Immigration Lectures

The Modern Social Problem, March 24, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams claims that immigrants are less likely to come to the United States due to discrimination in a talk to the Brooklyn Jewish Center.

Immigrants Lectures Public Health

How Would You Uplift the Masses?, February 4, 1892

Addams describes the efforts of Hull-House in a speech to the Sunset Club in Chicago.

Democracy Education England Hull-House Immigrants Settlement Movement Settlements

Hull-House: An Experiment in Social Service, March 12, 1923 (excerpts)

Addams discusses Hull-House and answers questions from an audience in Madras.

African-Americans Hull-House Immigrants India Lectures Social Work Temperance

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Lecture on Social Unrest, September 12, 1922 (summary)

Addams discusses immigration and the problems faced by foreigners.

Immigrants Lectures Public Opinion

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The Political Opinion of Europe Concerning American, September 12, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams describes public opinion in Europe and calls for American aid and engagement in the League of Nations.

Immigration League of Nations Lectures Peace Public Opinion Relief Efforts

Some International Phases of Settlement Work, February 10, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams discusses American views on immigration before a speech in Minneapolis.

Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement

Speech to the Emporia Women's City Club, January 11, 1922 (summary)

Addams speaks informally to the Women's City Club about welfare work and the Russian famine.

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts Social Work

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 16, 1927

Addams asks Borah to intercede to prevent the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Immigrants International Affairs Law Requests

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 16, 1927

Addams condemns the future execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, claiming it will harm relations between the US and its immigrant inhabitants.

Immigrants International Affairs Law Onsite Requests

Henriette Margot Irmgard von Treuberg to Jane Addams, October 3, 1924

Von Trueberg asks Addams for help in lobbying Congress to admit more immigrants from Italy, Germany and Austria.

Foreign Policy Immigrants Immigration Politics Relief Efforts Requests

Jane Addams to Amy Woods, September 24, 1924

Addams sends Woods an article by David Starr Jordan on the Japanese immigration question.

Immigration Japan

Chautauqua Speech, August 30, 1905 (summary)

Addams discusses the plight of child labor and immigration in a speech to the Chautauqua.

Child Labor Immigrants Lectures

Speech to Hull House Woman's Club on Immigration, November 23, 1905 (excerpt)

Addams argues that immigrants needs to be dispersed throughout the country to be successful.

Agriculture Immigrants Lectures

Children's Social Attitudes and Character, February 16, 1928

Addams discusses her interactions with Hull-House's immigrant neighbors as part of a round table discussion at the Midwest Conference on Character Development. This transcript includes discussion after Addams's talk which does not appear in the published proceedings.

Children Conferences Education Film Hull-House Immigrants Morality Social Reform

The World Court, January 14, 1926

Addams speaks on the value of the World Court to peace in a speech before the Women's Roosevelt Republican Club.

Courts Foreign Policy Internationalism Lectures

Emily Greene Balch to George W. Wickersham, May 24, 1924

Balch tells Wickersham that Addams is busy with the peace activiries and sends him other contacts and notes Addams's statement on Japanese immigration.

Immigration Japan

Feeding Europe and Saving America, February 18, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams spoke to the Reading Chamber of Commerce on the role that the United States could play in reducing the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Hull-House Immigrants Peace Recreation Relief Efforts Settlement Movement

Social Attitudes and Character, February 16, 1928

Addams discusses her interactions with Hull-House's immigrant neighbors as part of a round table discussion at the Midwest Conference on Character Development.

Education Hull-House Immigrants Morality

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 19, 1920 (summary)

Addams's discussion of the role of immigrants in America was summarized in the published proceedings of the Biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Des Moines.

Censorship Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 19, 1920 (excerpt)

At the Biennial Federation of Women's Clubs, Addams discusses the problems of associating the right to vote with marital status of the husband, telling of experiences with immigrant women voting in Chicago.

Democracy Lectures Woman Suffrage

Address to the Friends' General Conference on Americanization, July 8, 1920 (summary)

Addams contrasts the way immigrants are treated in the United States in the 1890s and 1920s.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

Speech to the American Friends Service Committee Reunion, June 24, 1920

Addams discusses changes in American civil liberties after World War I.

Free Speech Immigrants Lectures Nationalism Patriotism

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 19, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams argues for women to be able to hold citizenship on their own merits, rather than on the status of their husbands. This speech was given at the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in Des Moines.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts Woman Suffrage

Americanization, March 13, 1920

Addams discusses the way Americans should view immigrants and European relief efforts.

Education Food Shortages Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

The Wards of a Great City, February 29, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses European food shortage and the responsibility of government toward feeding people at the First Methodist Church in Evanston.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

Jane Addams to Calvin Coolidge, August 9, 1927

Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

Anti-radicalism Crime Government Immigrants Requests

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 22, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams and Catt opposes the efforts of the government to deport immigrant radicals because of their political beliefs.

Anti-radicalism Censorship Criticism Free Speech Government Immigrants Lectures

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 22, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams opposes the efforts of the government to deport immigrant radicals.

Anti-radicalism Government Immigrants Lectures

Remarks at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, June 12, 1909

As chair of a session, Addams comments on the papers presented regarding immigration at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections at Buffalo.

Immigrants Labor Lectures

Emily Greene Balch to Lewis Haskell, October 7, 1922

Emily Greene Balch writes to the American Consulate as a character reference for Miss Bertha Schulthess who wished to come to America.

Immigration Recommendations

Address to Open National Child Labor Committee Campaign, February 3, 1919 (excerpt) Also known as Girl's Part in Reconstruction Work, February 3, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams opened the membership campaign for the National Child Labor Committee in Pittsburgh and spoke to the Western Pennsylvania League of Women Workers on the need

Child Labor Labor League of Nations Lectures Peace World War I

Jane Addams on Immigration, April 8, 1903 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the decrease of immigrant children's school attendance.

Children Education Immigrants

Address to the Girls' Club of Oak Park and River Forest High School, December 12, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams encourages students to make kind relations with immigrants and other people.

Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlements

Miss Addams' Views on the Deportations, February 23, 1920 Also known as Jane Addams to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1920

Addams accuses the editor of the Chicago Tribune of unfair coverage of her address, and explains her position on political deportations.

Criticism Democracy Free Speech Immigrants Journalism Labor Lectures

Jane Addams to Edward Scott Beck, February 23, 1920

Addams accuses Beck (the editor of the Chicago Tribune) of misleading coverage of her address at the Auditorium and demands a correction be published.

Criticism Free Speech Immigrants Journalism Lectures

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Address to Open National Child Labor Committee Campaign, February 3, 1919 (excerpt) Also known as Girl's Part in Reconstruction Work, February 3, 1919 (excerpt)

Miss Addams' Views on the Deportations, February 23, 1920 Also known as Jane Addams to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1920

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