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Jane Addams to Olive Hanson Rabe, July 6, 1928

Addams congratulates Rabe on the decision in Rosika Schwimmer's naturalization case and sends her some money for expenses.

Civil liberties Immigrants Travels

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

Ethelwyn Mills to Jane Addams, October 17, 1927

Mills tells Addams her ideas on the Rosika Schwimmer citizenship case.

Immigration Law Peace

Jane Addams to Olive Hanson Rabe, October 20, 1927

Addams sends Rabe an offer of legal help for Rosika Schwimmer's naturalization case.

Immigration Law Requests

Sailendra Nath Ghose to Jane Addams, October 2, 1925

Ghose seeks medical help for his daughter and writes Addams about his political exile from India.

Charity Children Health India Requests

Iris Leota Wood to Jane Addams, January 21, 1926

Wood sends Addams information about the Immigrants' Protective League and asks for her availability for a board meeting.

Immigrants Meetings Requests

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

Tribute to Allen Bartlit Pond, April 21, 1929

Addams presents a memorial to Allen Bartlit Pond, describing their friendship and his architectural achievements at Hull-House and beyond.

Architecture Chicago Death Hull-House Immigrants Settlement Movement Social Work

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

Chautauqua Speech, August 30, 1905 (summary)

Addams discusses the plight of child labor and immigration in a speech to the Chautauqua.

Child Labor Immigrants Lectures

Speech to Hull House Woman's Club on Immigration, November 23, 1905 (excerpt)

Addams argues that immigrants needs to be dispersed throughout the country to be successful.

Agriculture Immigrants Lectures

Maria Matilda Widegren to Jane Addams, January 15, 1924

Widegren suggests to Addams that Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's International Branches could work with immigrant communities in the United States to drum up support for peace.

Conferences Finances Immigrants Peace Sweden

Children's Social Attitudes and Character, February 16, 1928

Addams discusses her interactions with Hull-House's immigrant neighbors as part of a round table discussion at the Midwest Conference on Character Development. This transcript includes discussion after Addams's talk which does not appear in the published proceedings.

Children Conferences Education Film Hull-House Immigrants Morality Social Reform

Memorandum on the Study of the Races, August 18, 1922

Thomas outlines a possible book on race and immigration, focusing on how immigrants assimilate and how their customs shape their lives.

Eugenics Immigrants Race Settlements

William Isaac Thomas to Jane Addams, August 18, 1922

Thomas tells Addams about his planned book on race and immigration.

Immigrants Race Settlements

William Isaac Thomas to Jane Addams, August 1, 1922

Thomas tells Addams his ideas about writing a book on race and immigration.

Books Immigrants Race

Feeding Europe and Saving America, February 18, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams spoke to the Reading Chamber of Commerce on the role that the United States could play in reducing the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Hull-House Immigrants Peace Recreation Relief Efforts Settlement Movement

Emily Greene Balch to Josephine Böhm, October 4, 1923 (draft)

Balch advises Böhm about the feasibility of moving to the United States.

Austria Employment Immigration United States

Social Attitudes and Character, February 16, 1928

Addams discusses her interactions with Hull-House's immigrant neighbors as part of a round table discussion at the Midwest Conference on Character Development.

Education Hull-House Immigrants Morality

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 19, 1920 (summary)

Addams's discussion of the role of immigrants in America was summarized in the published proceedings of the Biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Des Moines.

Censorship Immigrants Lectures 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

Statement on Prohbition in the Slums, March 12, 1920

Addams argues that the impact of Prohibition in the slums has been positive thus far.

Prohibition Social Work

Jane Addams to Calvin Coolidge, August 9, 1927

Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

Anti-radicalism Crime Government Immigrants Requests

The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the need to understand the poor in order to solve the problems of poverty.

Charity Immigrants Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement Social Work

Miss Baer Released From Ellis Island, May 2, 1922

Report about Gertrude Baer's brief detention by American immigration officials and Addams's role in securing her release.

Immigration Lectures Peace Travels

Address to the Girls' Club of Oak Park and River Forest High School, December 12, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams encourages students to make kind relations with immigrants and other people.

Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlements

Jane Addams to Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett, April 22, 1921

Addams sends Barnett the Irish Commission report and talks about Britain's role in Ireland, and Barnett's housing scheme.

Friends Housing International Affairs Ireland Peace

Anna Goldschmidt Edinger to Jane Addams, January 22, 1921

Edinger asks Addams to help German emigrees who will be settling in Chicago.

Germany Immigrants Requests

Jane Addams to Bainbridge Colby, May 18, 1920

Addams asks Colby to allow relief efforts to proceed in the Soviet Union.

Government Relief Efforts Requests Russia

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, May 6, 1920

Kellogg suggests changes for Addams article about Samuel Barnett.

Books Immigrants Requests Settlement Movement Writings

J. H. Olivier to Jane Addams, February 24, 1920 (fragment)

Olivier writes to support Addams's remarks regarding political deportations.

Immigrants Praise

Charles Wesley Mosher to Jane Addams, February 24, 1920

Mosher writes Addams to criticize her remarks regarding political deportations.

Anti-radicalism Crime Criticism Government Immigrants Immigration Politics

Attorney Ferguson Speaks., January 14, 1920

An editorial supports most of Charles Ferguson's takes on radicalism, but does not support his idea that colleges promote radicalism.

Anarchism Anti-radicalism Articles Communism Education Free Speech Immigrants

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, January 10, 1920

Thomas updates Addams on efforts for German relief, focusing on reaching out to influential German-Americans.

Immigrants Relief Efforts Thanks

Louis L. Brande to Jane Addams, February 23, 1920

Brande supports Addams's speech on the deportation of radical immigrants.

Anti-radicalism Free Speech Immigrants Lectures Praise

Otto Leopold Schmidt to Jane Addams, January 31, 1920

Schmidt updates Addams on the status of raising relief funds for Germany in Chicago.

Germany Immigrants Philanthropy Relief Efforts

The Newer Ideals as They Are Affecting Life, April 11, 1903 (excerpt)

Addams discusses her experiences with immigrants in a talk to the Cook County Teachers' Association.

Children Education Immigrants Lectures

The Subtle Problems of Charity, February 1899

Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

Charity Labor Poverty Social Work

Statement on Abraham Isaak and Chicago Anarchists, September 8, 1901

Addams asks the Mayor for permission to see Abraham Isaak and other anarchists arrested in the wake of the McKinley assassination.

Anarchism Courts Crime Immigrants

Mina Caroline Ginger Van Winkle to Jane Addams, September 21, 1917

Van Winkle asks for Addams in gathering information to assist the U.S. Food Administration.

Food Conservation Immigrants Requests

Alfred Booth Kuttner to Jane Addams, June 11, 1917

Kuttner thanks Addams for her stand on peace and discusses the ethnic divisions that the war has brought to America.

Immigrants Lectures Peace Praise World War I

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, November 17, 1916

Addams asks Kellogg to include a summary of Bertrand Russell's reply to the Cambridge Magazine in The Survey.

Immigrants Peace

Chicago Peril to Immigrant Girls, March 24, 1911

Addams discusses the perils that face immigrant women and the need for protections.

Immigrants Morality Social Work

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, May 10, 1916 (fragment)

Taylor updates Addams on the work of the Chicago Commons.

Celebrations Finances Immigrants Onsite Settlements

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

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

What Can Be Done to Americanize America?, May 31, 1920

Addams discusses the difficulties facing immigrants because Americans do not see them as fully American.

Articles Ethnic Groups Immigrants

The Immigrant and Social Unrest, April 19, 1920

Addams discusses the relationship between immigrants and social unrest. This speech was given at the National Conference on Social Work in New Orleans.

Anti-radicalism Censorship Democracy Free Speech Immigrants Immigration Labor Lectures Social Class Social Welfare Social Work

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