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Speech to West Side Methodist Episcopal Church, May 2, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses America's responsibility to help starving Europe.

Lectures Relief Efforts

Americanization, March 13, 1920

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

Education Food Shortages Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

The World's Food Supply and the World's Politics, November 9, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the food situation in Europe as a grim specter over any attempts at peace. This speech was delivered as part of the Social Welfare Conference at the Elm Street Church in Chillicothe.. MO

Food Shortages Lectures Relief Efforts World War I

Address to the Social Workers' Club of Detroit, January 25, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams describes the conditions in Europe after the war.

Food Shortages Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

Women's Part in This New World, May 16, 1919

Addams discusses the role of American women as economic factors in the post-World War I global economy.

Food Conservation Food Shortages Labor Relief Efforts Women World War I

Address to the Illinois State Conference of Charities and Corrections, October 24, 1919 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the impact of housing and food shortages in Europe on children's health.

England Food Shortages France Germany Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

Statement on Quaker Food Commission Work, July 2, 1919

Addams discusses her plans to distribute food to German children.

Food Shortages Germany Relief Efforts

Official Report of Jane Addams and Dr. Alice Hamilton, September, 1919

Addams and Hamilton report on their visit to Germany to see conditions after World War I.

Europe Food Shortages Germany Health Medicine Relief Efforts

Women's Part in this New World, April 10, 1919

Addams explores the role that American women will have in rebuilding the world and the economy.

Articles Economics Food Shortages Labor Women World War I

The Next Step, January 20, 1919

Addams argues for post war relief and the establishment of the League of Nations and other international organizations to help guarantee the peace. The speech was given at the University Auditorium as part of the Farmer's Week celebration.

Charity Ethics Food Shortages Foreign Policy Internationalism Lectures Morality Peace Public Health Russia

Ida Breitenbaum Müller to Jane Addams, April 9, 1920

Müller asks Addams to send food relief packages to her and other peace activists in Vienna.

Austria Food Shortages Peace Requests

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Woman as a Citizen, January 21, 1919 (excerpt)

Addams speaks to club women on their responsibilities as citizens to become involved in international affairs.

Food Shortages Lectures Social Welfare

Harry Graf Kessler to Jane Addams, December 14, 1920

Kessler sends Addams his "True League of Nations" and a pamphlet on famine in Berlin (not found).

Food Shortages League of Nations Peace Relief Efforts Requests

A Report on the Upper Middle Class in Vienna, January 1920

Vernon reports on food shortages, inflation, and wage stagnation in Vienna.

Austria Economy Food Conservation Food Shortages Poverty Relief Efforts

Rosa Schusz to Jane Addams, July 30, 1920

Schusz thanks Addams for the food relief she sent through the WILPF.

Austria Food Shortages Relief Efforts

Christina Merriman to Jane Addams, July 6, 1920

Merriman thanks Addams for the Fight the Famine pamphlets.

Charity England Food Shortages Relief Efforts

Food Draft Receipts, May 25, 1920

Receipts for food drafts sent by Addams to Vienna and Berlin.

Relief Efforts

Patrick James Gratten Mythen to Jane Addams, May 13, 1920

Abbott Patrick sends Addams an appeal by the Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church to organize relief for Russian children.

Relief Efforts Religion Soviet Union

Excerpt from the Westminster Gazette, February 4, 1920

Excerpt from a news report about anticipated food shortages in Europe.

Food Shortages Relief Efforts

Nicolaas Philip Tendeloo to Jane Addams, February 15, 1920

Tendeloo asks Addams for more American aid to combat worsening food shortages in Germany.

Food Shortages Foreign Policy Germany Relief Efforts

Siegfried Heckscher to Jane Addams, February 3, 1920

Heckscher sends Addams a new report

Food Shortages

Lucy Biddle Lewis to Jane Addams, January 28, 1920

Lewis tells Addams about work being done in Pennsylvania and asks Addams's advice about dealing with Herbert Hoover.

Food Shortages Peace Relief Efforts Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, November 26, 1919

Addams writes to Kellogg about the speaking she has done recently and a woman Kellogg inquired about. She also sends him letters and telegrams about contributions to the famine.

Food Shortages Lectures Onsite