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Interview with the New York Times, ca. August 1928 (excerpts)

Addams discusses her views on women's organizations after winning the vote.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Statement at the International Congress of Women, June 4, 1913 (excerpt)

Addams situates the women's movement in a general impulse of seeking betterment for all people.

Conferences Internationalism Woman Suffrage

Introduction to Suffrage Speeches, March 7, 1911

A short quote by Addams introducing speakers during the suffrage tour.

Lectures Woman Suffrage

Suffrage Speech at Peotone, March 7, 1911 (summary)

A summary of Addams speech about woman suffrage at the start of her lecture tour.

Lectures Woman Suffrage

Interview at the Progressive Party Convention, August 7, 1912

Addams talks to a New York Sun reporter about her decision to support Theodore Roosevelt and the new party in the presidential election.

Government Politics Progressive Woman Suffrage

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Women and Democracy, October 4, 1912 (excerpts and summary)

Addams speaks on woman suffrage at a meeting in Potage, Wisconsin. She gave the same speech in Janesvile.

Lectures Woman Suffrage

Statement on Youths and Drinking, March 3, 1925 (summary)

Addams notes that she is not alarmed about present day social conditions.

Lectures Prohibition Woman Suffrage Youth

Jane Addams to Lulu Smart Schweizer, January 17, 1927

Addams tells Schweizer that she cannot pick out one influence of women's voting but is certain they will show.

Politics Quotes Woman Suffrage Women

Impressions of Political Movements in the Orient, March 29, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams discusses child labor, the work of missionaries, and women's rights in China and India at the Woman's City Club

Child Labor China India Lectures Social Work Woman Suffrage

Address on the Non-Partisan League of Women Voters, September 7, 1923 (excerpt)

Addams spoke briefly alongside Chester Rowell to argue that women should use their votes to get the changes they want.

Hawaii Lectures Woman Suffrage

The League's Return to Chicago, April 25, 1928

Addams marks the 38th anniversary of women's suffrage in Wyoming and the eighth anniversary of national suffrage at the annual meeting of the League of Women Voters, held at the Palmer House in Chicago.

Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, June 6, 1924

Lathrop seeks to talk to Addams about relations between the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Peace Requests Woman Suffrage

Speech on Woman Suffrage, March 9, 1914

Addams speaks on women's suffrage in Birmingham and declares that women's voting power would be used to combat child labor.

Child Labor Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Pageant of Emancipation, April 10, 1929

Addams discusses the progress of women and their importance to society in the western world and in Asia at a regional meeting of the Young Woman's Christian Association.

Speech to the Shawnee County League of Women Voters, January 13, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams spoke about the roles women are playing in the peace movement to a breakfast meeting in Topeka. The article also details other activities during her trip.

Government Lectures Woman Suffrage Women

Address Before the Nineteenth Century Club, October 14, 1907 (excerpts)

Addams argues that woman suffrage might impact the plight of fallen women who are preyed upon by men.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Morality Prostitution Woman Suffrage

Speech to Washington Woman's City Club, November 19, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams urges women to use their vote to pressure the United States to loan relief funds to European countries.

Charity Foreign Policy 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

Statement on the Foreign Women's Vote, May 24, 1920

Addams calls for getting all Chicago women to the polls at a joint meeting of Chicago Women's Clubs.

Immigrants Lectures Woman Suffrage

Comments at National American Woman Suffrage Association Victory Convention, February 13, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams argues that with suffrage won, a new era in legislation will follow.

Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

How Votes Could Help, September 27, 1913 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the impact that woman suffrage will have in Chicago.

Eugenics Politics Woman Suffrage

How Votes Could Help, September 27, 1913 (excerpt)

A short excerpt from Addams's speech to the Suffrage School about the impact of woman suffrage.

Lectures Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Upton Sinclair, August 17, 1922

Addams tells Sinclair about a time when her suffrage speech was banned from the University of Michigan's campus.

Censorship Lectures Woman Suffrage

Interview with the Woman Citizen, ca. April 19, 1924

Addams discusses the universal suffrage movement and its impact on the peace movement.

Peace Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

International Cooperation in Social Welfare, July 2, 1924

Addams discusses suffrage and social work in Asia. This speech was given at the National Conference of Social Work in Toronto.

Child Labor China India Japan Lectures Settlement Movement Social Welfare Social Work

International Cooperation for Social Welfare (fragment), July 2, 1924

Addams discusses universal suffrage.

China India Industry Lectures Medicine Onsite Social Work Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, August 20, 1920

Kellogg asks Addams to write an editorial for the Survey on women's suffrage.

Requests Woman Suffrage

Anna Garlin Spencer to Jane Addams, January 27, 1920

Spencer invites Addams to speak at the National American Woman Suffrage Association conference and updates her on suffrage movement's activities.

Conferences Peace Woman Suffrage

James Gorton to Jane Addams, February 23, 1920

Gorton supports Addams's remarks on the deportation of aliens and woman suffrage.

Anti-radicalism Free Speech Lectures Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Charles Phineas Schwartz, August 10, 1916

Addams discusses deciding who to vote for in the Presidential Election.

Democracy Health Politics Woman Suffrage

Anne Henrietta Martin to Eleanor Daggett Karsten, May 25, 1918

Martin asks Karsten to thank Addams for her political endorsement and hopes she will help campaign in Nevada.

Politics Requests Thanks Woman Suffrage

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

The Benefit of Suffrage for Working Women, March 19, 1908 (excerpt)

A summary of Addams' speech at Mount Holyoke College in support of woman suffrage as a means to foster social change.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Statement on Republican National Convention, June 13, 1912

Addams discusses the impact of the Republican convention on the woman suffrage movement and presents her appeal to the platform committee. On June 19, she addressed the Party's platform committee, and her remarks are included here.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Statements on Wilson Administration, December 16, 1913

A news account of Addams' criticism of President Wilson on woman suffrage and affirmation of her membership in the Progressive Party.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Ellery Sedgwick, November 21, 1916

Addams writes to Sedgwick explaining her reluctance to write an article on women's vote at the moment.

Conscription Politics Woman Suffrage

Grace Wilbur Trout to Jane Addams, October 24, 1916

Trout seeks to meet with Addams to discuss woman suffrage strategies.

Onsite Politics Woman Suffrage

Interview with James Evans Crown, September, 1910

In an interview with James Evan Crown, Addams discusses the impact that woman suffrage is having on society. Addams later denied having taken part in this interview, specifically her comments on the poor.

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