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Addams urges Illinois women to work legislatively for the right to jury service.
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A pamphlet describes modern Chinese women in an effort to raise funds for Lingnan University.
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Addams discusses women's empowerment, college training and morality to the graduates of Mount Holyoke College.
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Smedley interviews Singh on the roles of women in India.
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Thomas sends Addams information on the Woman's Peace Party finances and about French women receiving equal wages during the war.
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Addams discusses the possibility of both Marcet Haldeman and Emanuel Julius sharing a hyphenated name after marriage.
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Harrison is part of the Men's Equal Suffrage League in Charleston, West Virginia and is hoping to secure Addams as a speaker.
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Addams tells a story to illustrate the danger of looking at the struggle for women's rights through rose-colored glasses.
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James sends Addams a descriptive and financial report of the campaign activities of the National American Woman Suffrage Association.
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Also known as Bryn Mawr Commencement Address, June 6, 1912

In this commencement address, Addams discusses the changes in perception of women's intelligence and argues that the time is ripe for women's intelligence to hold sway. The speech was later published in the Bryn Mawr Alumnae Quarterly.
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Hoffman thanks Addams for her work for the Progressive Party and woman suffrage.
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Matheny informs Addams about the Progressive legislation agenda and suffrage in West Virginia and asks her to be a part of it all.
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Coman tells Addams about her work at a school in Spain and asks if she can raise $100 for a series of lectures there.
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In the final installment of "Why Women Should Vote," Addams highlights why women need the ballot and argues that woman suffrage is centuries overdue and necessary for women to protect themselves.
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In this first installment of "Why Women Should Vote," Addams argues that antiquated notions of being a "lady" work against the woman suffrage movement.
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Addams gave this lecture at least two times; once at the February 2 meeting of the New York City Women's Political Union, and again on February 14 at the Boston School Voters' League. In the lecture, she discusses the philosophical relationship between women and the State and argues for the value of women in government, leading to the importance of woman suffrage. She may have also delivered a version of this lecture in Chicago on Dec. 8, 1910, to the Fortnightly Club.
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Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money.
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Addams warns independent women against men who will try to take advantage of them in matters of money. This is a reprint of an article first published in 1907.
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Addams speaks about women reformers' duty to treat the unfortunate with compassion and not contempt.
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Newspaper summary of Addams' speech to the Philadelphia Branch of the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, in which she argues that housewives are not Progressive thinkers.
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Bok asks Addams for an article arguing against the idea that women over fifty should give up social service and civic work.
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Opdyke asks Addams to find someone in the psychology department at the University of Chicago to counter an article written by Professor Hugo Münsterberg that claimed women were not fit for jury duty because they are stubborn and will not listen to arguments.
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Addams argues for women to have the vote in order that they may continue to perform their duties to family and to home in the modern world, where responsibilities, like feeding their children and keeping them safe, are no long directly within their control.