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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.

Education Immigrants Lectures

Statement on Old Ironsides, April 22, 1927 (excerpt)

Addams reflects on the patriotism inspired by seeing the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides") in Chicago.

Education Lectures Patriotism Visits

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 Henry Goddard Leach, January 16, 1928

Addams tells Leach that he can close their account, and discusses the idea of a Folk High School for immigrants.

Education Hull-House Immigrants

Jane Addams to Trenton Senior High School, ca. June 1922-1924

Addams sends a letter telling the graduating class that she hopes they learn how to serve men and women in their business careers.

Business Education

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

Mount Holyoke College Commencement Speech, June 19, 1907 (excerpt)

Addams discusses women's empowerment, college training and morality to the graduates of Mount Holyoke College.

Education Lectures Politics Women

Public Schools, the Safeguard of Democracy, May 24, 1929

Addams presents her argument on the value of public schools to a democracy.

Children Crime Democracy Education Historical figures History Juvenile Delinquency Lectures

Interview with Effie Leese Scott, February 14, 1929

Scott interviews Addams for the Tucson Daily Citizen on international relations and the future of the peace movement.

Disarmament International Affairs Peace

Speech to Pilgrim Congregational Church, November 24, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses means of closing the divide between capitalist and trade unions.

Business Education Labor Lectures

Comments to the Chicago Woman's Club, October 7, 1908 (excerpt)

At a meeting of the education department of the Chicago Woman's Club, Addams encourages the use of school health care workers and censuses.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Statement at the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society Meeting, January 30, 1912

Addams notes that Peter Bartzen was not among the National Institute of Arts and Letters's forty "immortals."

Children Education

Jane Addams to Earlham College, August 1920 (excerpt)

Addams praises Earlham College and supports efforts to raise an endowment.

Education Finances

Jane Addams to Upton Sinclair, September 18, 1922

Addams tells Sinclair that she doesn't have any materials ready for his book on schools.

Education Requests

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

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

Children Education Immigrants

The True Ideal of a Public School System That Aims to Benefit All, January 25, 1908

Addams expands on the cultural values taught in industrial education and training.

Business Education Industry Lectures Youth

Jane Addams to William Edward Dodd, October 26, 1919

Addams thanks Dodd for his commencement address, and comments on her feelings on Woodrow Wilson.

Education Lectures Thanks

Statement on High Schools, November 4, 1903

Addams argues for more high schools with better furnishings.

Children Education

Social Science, January 28, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the different methods of social work and describes how the settlement works to help society.

Child Labor Child Welfare Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement Settlements Social Work

Social Results of the New Education, December 18, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the problems of child labor in relation to compulsory education.

Child Labor Education Lectures Onsite

Club Women Urged to Visit Factories, Chicago Inter Ocean, November 16, 1902, p. 7..jpg

Speech to the Cook County League of Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams and De Bey urge Chicago clubwomen to visit factories to see the working conditions for children and discuss a measure that will make it more difficult to keep children out of school.

Child Labor Education Lectures Legislation

Speech to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902

Addams proposes changes to the child labor and compulsory education laws for endorsement to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs.

Child Labor Education Lectures

The Social Waste of Child Labor, October 4, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams exhorts members of the Chicago Political Equality League to work against child labor and towards educating the poor.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Speech at the Child-Saving Conference, January 30, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams and Bodine discuss changes needed in compulsory education rules to make them more effective.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Speech to the American League of Civic Improvement, September, 24, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the education of immigrants

Education Immigrants Lectures

Lecture on Social Settlement System, July 28, 1902

Addams discusses the settlement house's role as a charity and the means by which it appeals to the poor. She spoke at the Decatur Chautauqua.

Charities Child Labor Lectures Settlement Movement Social Work

School Halls to be Social Centers, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Feb. 24, 1902, p. 3..jpg

Speech to the South Side League of Parents' Clubs Reunion, February 23, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the role of neighborhood centers can play in fostering community.

Child Welfare Education Lectures Recreation

Address to the Chicago Institute, June 21, 1901

Addams criticizes trade schools in an address to the Chicago Institute.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Address to the Young Men's and Young Woman's Christian Associations, June 17, 1901

In a speech in Chicago, Addams warns female students of their future after graduating from college.

Education Gender Roles

Statement on Apprenticeship System, April 19, 1901

Addams argues that the proposed apprenticeship system needs to be remodeled before it will be effective.

Child Labor Education Manufacturing

Address to the Kindergarten Union Convention, April 13, 1901

Addams comments on the importance of kindergarten in settlement work at the close of a convention of the International Kindergarten Union.

Education and Labor, March 24, 1901 (excerpt)

Addams discussed the role of schools in preparing children for life in a speech at the Ethical Society.

Education Labor Lectures

The Social Problem of the College Graduate (excerpts), March 19, 1904

Addams encourages college women at Wellesley to use their educations to improve the lives of immigrants.

Education Immigrants Lectures Social Work

Remarks on the Cinema, ca. 1922-1923

Addams discusses the value of the cinema and the settlements to educate immigrants and help them adjust to American life.

Education Film Housing Hull-House Immigrants Settlement Movement

Statement on the Illinois Cosmetic Therapy Bill (excerpt), 1922

Addams supports a state law regulating beauty operators.

Legislation Public Health Sanitation

Remarks on the Cinema, ca. 1922-1923

Addams discusses the value of the cinema and the settlements to educate immigrants and help them adjust to American life.

Education Film Housing Hull-House Immigrants Settlement Movement

Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, May 14, 1921

Addams discusses the University of Chicago's new School of Social Service Administration.

Child Welfare Education Social Work Writings

Address on Occupational Therapy, September 1919

Addams discusses the work done in Chicago for helping those suffering from mental illness. Her talk was given at the third annual conference of the National Society for the Promotion of Occupational Therapy, held at Hull-House, from September 9 to September 11.

Disability Hull-House Lectures Onsite Philanthropy Social Work

As I See Women, August 1915

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

Civil Rights Democracy Education Feminism Gender Roles Sex Hygiene Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Opportunities for Women, July 29, 1914

Addams speaks about women college graduates and their role in public reform.

Education Gender Roles Woman Suffrage

Rockford College Fortieth Anniversary Speech, November 8, 1913 (excerpts)

Addams argues that women's colleges should train women for public service.

Education Lectures

Who is to Blame for Child Labor?, July 23, 1914

Addams, discussing the main reasons for why child labor is wrong, how it came to be, and who can be blamed for it.

Child Labor Child Welfare Children Industry Legislation Manufacturing Poverty Writings

What Should Our Schools Do for Boys and Girls of 14?, September 22, 1912

Addams advocates for the education of young children alongside Young in the form of vocational training.

Child Labor Child Welfare Children Education

Miss Addams, February 1913

Addams argues that the improvement of education for children starts with the improvement of their work conditions and environment and that a national effort is necessary so that every child is protected. This is the second article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's role to affect change.

Child Labor Children Education Social Work

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.

Education Government Immigration Legislation Racism

A Plea for More Play, More Pay and More Education for Our Factory Girls and Boys, 1913

An essay collected from Addams' writings on children, child labor, and recreational opportunities in the city.

Child Labor Child Welfare Children Education Recreation

The Children of the Nation, September 1912

Addams argues that the improvement of education for children starts with the improvement of their work conditions and environment and that a national effort is necessary so that every child is protected.

Child Labor Children Education

Our Public Schools, February 21, 1909 (excerpt)

An excerpt from Addams's 1897 speech to the National Educational Association on the indoctrination of children into industry.

Business Child Labor Education

The Reaction of Moral Instruction upon Social Reform, April 4, 1909 (excerpt)

Addams speaks to the Chicago Sinai congregation on the value of theater for moral teaching of the young.

Children Education Lectures Morality Theater

The Progressive Party and the Needs of Children, August-September, 1912

Addams discusses the formation of the Progressive Party and its ideals, starting with children's needs. She notes that the party supports efforts to curb child labor, and to encourage education. This is one of a series of articles she prepared for the Central Press Association as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

Children Crime Education Labor

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