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Ovington proposes establishing a settlement to work with African-Americans in New York and asks Addams' advice.

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Also known as The Yellow Kid, 1905

Addams relates a story about peasants in Russia who believe that all Americans are black. It was published in several newspapers on April 16, 1905, and then also under the title of "The Yellow Kid" in an anthology of quotes from famous people.

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Walling asks Addams to reconsider his offer to participate in a conference on African-Americans and asks for her help in securing others to support it.

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Article about the creation of a permanent committee, on which Jane Addams was invited to serve, coming out of the Conference on the Status of the Negro.

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Spiller invites Addams to join a committee for the Universal Races Conference, if she is sympathetic to the cause.

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Also known as Lynched Two in Ten Days, May 22, 1911

Newspaper report of the lynching of six black men in Lake City, Florida, accused of murdering Robert B. Smith, a prominent white man.

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After reading Addams' article in McClure's Magazine, the unknown correspondent shares some of her own ideas about women in Panama and the Canal Zone.

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Addams invites Blaine to a meeting with Mary Ovington to help plan the conference for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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In this article, Rayner advocates for the advantages for African Americans to attend college.

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Breckinridge asks Addams's advice about some filling job positions and the 50th anniversary of emancipation.

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Addams chastises American society for failing to live up to the ideals of the Emancipation Proclamation and demands political equality for black Americans.

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Addams chastises American society for failing to live up to the ideals of the Emancipation Proclamation and demands political equality for black Americans.

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Spingarn writes to Kellogg that he is eager to help the Progressive Service and offers a suggestion on how best he might do that.

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A memorandum regarding the subdivision of the Department of the Progressive Service and an effort to confront the issue of race relations.

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Addams criticizes the film Birth of a Nation as unjust and untrue and designed to foster race prejudice.

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The Crisis includes Addams' comments alongside others on the "The Clansman," a play which depicts African Americans negatively.

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Haldeman discusses her experiences working at her bank and shares stories of life in Girard.

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Addams writes about the changes Blaine suggested for the Joint Committee to Secure Equal Justice for Colored Riot Defendants.

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Morel claims that France is stationing black soldiers in Germany to rape and terrorize German women.

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American Civil Liberties Union defines its stance on first amendment rights, labor rights, law enforcement, immigration and racial equality.

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Gund asks Addams to have the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom protest France's stationing of black soldiers in the Rhine due to reports of cruelty.

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Willett demands that Colby investigate alleged atrocities committed by black French troops in Germany.

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Shaw tells Willett that the stories of Black French troops in Germany have been greatly exaggerated.

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Mathes asks Addams to investigate the State Department's dismissal of the stories of French Black troop atrocities in Germany.

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Berg and colleagues ask Carlson to sway public opinion against Black French Colonial soldiers in Germany.