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Statement on Police Brutality during Picketing, February 23, 1914 (excerpts)

Addams notes the role of private detectives in violence during picketing.

Labor Police

Ellen Gates Starr to the Editor of the Springfield Republican, August 15, 1927

Starr urges the public to believe the experts who claim that evidence was misused against Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement United States

Conservative Lawyer's View of Lowell Committee's Report, August 15, 1927

Williams breaks down inconsistencies in the government's report on the Sacco-Vanzetti case, highlighting the misinterpretation of evidence.

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Quotes Edmund Burke in a Letter on Sacco-Vanzetti, ca. August 1927

Newspaper reports on Brown's letter to the Boston Herald regarding the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Crime Enforcement

Borah Amazes Sacco Forces, ca. August 19, 1927

Article publishes Borah's telegram to Addams refusing to interfere in the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Government

Rev. E. B. Young Supports Courts, August 22, 1927

Young argues to the editor that outsiders should not question the justice system.

Crime Enforcement Criticism

Miss Addams Would Fix It, May 19, 1927

An editorial criticizes Jane Addams for wanting to disarm policemen.

Crime Criticism Disarmament Lectures

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, August 13, 1927

Kellogg asks Addams to add her name to a request to get a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti.

Crime Government Requests

Jeanette Flitcraft Stetson to Jane Addams, August 12, 1927

Stetson asks Addams to protest the Sacco and Vanzetti execution.

Anti-radicalism Crime Government Requests

Harriet Walton Freund to Jane Addams, August 9, 1927

Freund asks Addams to intercede for Sacco and Vanzetti with Governor Fuller.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Government Requests

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

Emily Greene Balch to the Government of Belgium, October 27, 1927

Balch signs an appeal to the Government of Belgium to release August Borms from prison.

Anti-radicalism Belgium Requests

Edward S. Grece to Jane Addams, July 5, 1927

Grece tells Addams that her speech failed to take into account Christian morality.

Crime Criticism Lectures Morality Peace Religion

Jane Addams's Plea, August 23, 1927

The Post criticizes Addams’s arguments against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Criticism Government Journalism

William Charles Cotterell to Jane Addams, July 4, 1927

Cotterell tells Addams about his view on crime.

Crime Crime Enforcement

Professor Crook Writes on Sacco Issues, August 24, 1927

Crooks writes to the Gazette editor defending efforts to commute the sentence of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Courts Crime Government Religion

Horace D. Jackson to Jane Addams, July 3, 1927

Jackson tells Addams his ideas about the cause of crime, blaming in part the message in David Harum, an 1896 novel by Edward Noyes Westcott.

Crime Religion

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 22, 1927

Addams thanks Borah for assisting the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

Crime Enforcement Government Gratitude Requests

Jane Addams to Alvan Tufts Fuller, August 22, 1927

Addams asks Fuller to give Sacco and Vanzetti a reprieve from the death sentence.

Government Requests Social Justice

Jane Addams to the Citizen's National Committee for Sacco and Vanzetti, August 22, 1927

Addams tells the Committee that she has telegramed President Coolidge and Governor Fuller.

Crime Enforcement Government Social Justice

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 22, 1927

Addams thanks Borah for helping the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

Crime Enforcement Government Gratitude Social Justice

William Edgar Borah to Jane Addams, September 3, 1927 (draft)

Borah tells Addams that he disagrees with her views on the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Courts Crime Enforcement Criticism Foreign Policy Requests

Ernest Otto Holland to Jane Addams, September 1, 1927

Holland tells Addams that they might turn the outrage against the Sacco and Vanzetti verdicts to a movement to overhaul the legal system.

Civil liberties Crime Enforcement

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 18, 1927

Addams sends Borah a clipping to explains her support of clemency in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Crime Enforcement Requests Social Justice

William Edgar Borah to Jane Addams, August 18, 1927

Borah tells Addams that he will not intervene in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Crime Enforcement Foreign Policy Government Requests

Charles C. Cooper to John Lovejoy Elliott, September 2, 1927

Cooper asks Elliott's opinion on the role of the settlement in a neighborhood.

Crime Enforcement Ethics Requests Settlements

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, August 16, 1927

Addams tells Kellogg that she supports his idea to try to save Sacco and Vanzetti.

Crime Enforcement Government Requests Social Justice

Paul Underwood Kellogg and Norman Hapgood to Jane Addams, August 1927

Kellogg and Hapgood ask Addams to support an effort to get a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti.

Crime Enforcement Government Requests

Jane Addams to Anne Henrietta Martin, May 31, 1927

Addams thanks Martin for her help in advocating for the pardon of Charlotte Anita Whitney within the League.

Anti-radicalism Onsite Peace Requests

Dies From Wounds In Police Gun Duel, ca. June 13, 1927

Newspaper describes the death of victim of a police shooting.

Crime Death Police

Girls Battle Youths In Auto On Lonely Road, August 8, 1927

News report of altercation between young men and women in Wauwatosa.

Crime

Two Youths Held on Girl's Charges, June 1927

Newspaper story of a young girl being brutally attacked by two men she was with. Relates to the rise in crime in America during the Prohibition Era.

Crime Newspapers Onsite Police Women

Commission Seeking Remedy For Eradicating The Causes Which Make Social Outcasts, May 31, 1927 [fragment]

Article discusses the creation of an American Crime Study Commission to investigate the causes and prevention of crime.

Conferences Crime Lectures

Killian Kotty to Jane Addams, August 1, 1927

Kotty tells Addams that reformers are the cause of moral laxity and that bringing back saloons and red light districts will improve morality.

Crime Enforcement Criticism Morality Youth

Elisabeth Coit Gilman to Jane Addams, April 19, 1927

Gilman asks Addams to intervene to prevent the execution of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Crime Enforcement Government Requests Social Justice

Jane Addams to Alvan Tufts Fuller, April 12, 1927

Addams asks Fuller to set aside the death penalty for Sacco and Vanzetti because the trial was unfair.

Crime Enforcement Requests

Statement on the Bobby Franks Case, July 28, 1924 (excerpt)

Mary Field reports on her interview of Addams with regard to the criminal case against Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for the murder of fourteen year old Bobby Franks in Chicago. Other comments were made by Carl Sandburg and Elllsworth Faris.

Crime

We Called Him Brother, November 1, 1924

Armes describes Russian refugee Jan Pouren's efforts to enter and remain in the United States.

Crime Enforcement Immigrants Immigration Prisons Russia Writings

Problem of Crime Unsolved, Let Us Start at It Anew, May 30, 1927

Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Enforcement Disarmament Juvenile Delinquency Law Lectures Prisons Social Work

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

Prohibition, March 2, 1928

Addams discusses the impact of prohibition on urban communities and notes a gradual increase in availability of alcohol due to home-based distilling. Addams gave this talk to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Social Workers' Clubs at the Y.W.C.A. building.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Prohibition

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

Comment on Corporal Punishment, March 14, 1902

Addams responds to judges ordering parents to administer corporal punishment to juvenile delinquents. This was part of a longer new article.

Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Youth

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

Jane Adams to Emily Caroline Fitten MacDougald, ca. March 25, 1914

Addams asks MacDougald to organize the women of Atlanta to seek a reprieve for Leo Frank in order to review the evidence.

Crime Requests Social Justice

Gifford Pinchot to Jane Addams, January 2, 1924

Pinchot tells Addams that he cannot pardon prisoners under Pennsylvania law and advises that the American Civil Liberties Union follow the procedures.

Anti-radicalism Civil liberties Government Prisons Requests

Unwed Mothers-Modern Youth, March 24, 1927

Addams, as told to the Newspaper Enterprise Association, discusses the murder of unwed mother Rosa Stoble and argues for love and sympathy rather than punishment and stigma. This article was syndicated and published in many newspapers in March and April.

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