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In Recognition of the Leadership of Women, April 10, 1929 Also known as 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.

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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

Addams discusses universal suffrage.

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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

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

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

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

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 at the Presentation Ceremony of the Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, February 15, 1921

Addams's remarks at the unveiling of a suffrage memorial in the U.S. Capitol Building.

Lectures 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

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

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

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

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

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

Address on Anna Howard Shaw, November 13, 1919

Addams gives a memorial address for Shaw, highlighting Shaw's involvement in the woman's suffrage movement and religious education.

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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

Statement to the House Judiciary Committee on the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, December 12, 1916

Addams argues that the House should pass the Susan B. Anthony Amendment that would grant women the right to vote.

Legislation Peace Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

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

Henry Sydnor Harrison to Jane Addams, September 13, 1916

Harrison is part of the Men's Equal Suffrage League in Charleston, West Virginia and is hoping to secure Addams as a speaker.

Requests Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Charles Phineas Schwartz, August 10, 1916

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

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Women, War and Suffrage, November 6, 1915

Addams elaborates on how women can contribute to internationalism and peace after the war.

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Remarks on Woman Suffrage, October 23, 1915

Addams tells her experiences helping illiterate women to vote.

Poverty Woman Suffrage

Nelson Samuel Bradley to Jane Addams, October 2, 1915

Bradley invites Addams to speak at the Michigan State Convention of the Equal Suffrage Association.

Lectures Requests Woman Suffrage

As I See Women, August 1915

Addams gives an interview on the state of women in America.

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Comments on President Wilson, May 12, 1915

Addams praises President Wilson for his efforts for peace.

Peace Woman Suffrage

Women's Congress Honors Belgians, April 30, 1915

Addams discusses the events of the International Congress of Women, including presentations by Schwimmer, Augsburg, and Pethick-Lawrence.

Conferences Peace War Woman Suffrage World War I

Congress of Women Favors Arbitration, April 29, 1915

Addams reports on a resolution calling for arbitration passed by the International Congress of Women.

Conferences Peace Woman Suffrage World War I

Jane Addams on the Suffrage Cause, April 17, 1915

Addams argues the point that women need the right to vote in all national affairs to force the issue of peace, and to help prevent future wars from happening.

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Women and Public Housekeeping, March 1915

Addams, argues for woman suffrage claiming that municipal matters are directly related to their traditional responsibilities.

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Katherine Gregory Camp to Jane Addams, February 17, 1915

Camp apologizes to Addams as the National American Woman Suffrage Association newsletter listed her name as an officer.

Memberships Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Emma Ferdon Winner Rogers, February 8, 1915

Addams sends a check to the National American Woman Suffrage Association.

Finances Woman Suffrage

Secretary to Mary L. Adams, February 3, 1915

Addams' secretary is responding to Adams' letter and sending her copies of the Women's platform.

Peace Requests

Anna Howard Shaw to Jane Addams, February 2, 1915

Shaw reports that the National Association is unable take up the matter or peace, but is sending all communications to Addams as head of the peace movement in the United States.

Peace Woman Suffrage

Marian Gertrude Haines to Jane Addams, January 30, 1915

Haines wants to know if President Wilson has received the peace petition from Addams' peace group.

Peace Requests Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, January 30, 1915

Addams discusses the suffrage platform of the Woman's Peace Party with Hemenway.

Peace Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Harriet Dexter Lawrence Hemenway, January 30, 1915

Addams discusses the suffrage platform of the Woman's Peace Party with Hemenway.

Peace Woman Suffrage

Hannah Johnston Bailey to Jane Addams, January 18, 1915

Bailey thanks Addams for her work for suffrage and peace.

Conferences Peace Praise War Woman Suffrage

Madeline McDowell Breckinridge to Jane Addams, December 30, 1914

Breckinridge cannot attend the Washington meeting; she also discusses board issues between Addams and Anna Howard Shaw at NAWSA.

Meetings Peace Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 24, 1914

Addams discusses an upcoming meeting.

Conferences Travels

Jane Addams Sees no Danger of a Race of "Mollies", December 3, 1914

Addams argues that feminism does not turn men into "mollycoddles."

Woman Suffrage

Comments at the National Suffrage Convention, January 26, 1914 (excerpts)

Addams speaks about suffrage and how it will change politics in America.

Lectures Politics Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Susan Walker FitzGerald, November 23, 1914

Addams will no longer accept the position of Honorary Vice President of the National American Woman Suffrage Association because the restrictions and duties of the office.

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In Recognition of the Leadership of Women, April 10, 1929 Also known as The Pageant of Emancipation, April 10, 1929

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