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Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903

Addams describes the plight of child labor and education in Chicago, especially in the case of immigrants.

Child Labor Children Education Immigrants Industry Labor

Child Labor and Pauperism, May 9, 1903 (draft)

Addams' draft speech, on child labor and education, given at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, in Atlanta.

Child Labor Children Consumerism Education Industry Labor Poverty

Summary of Discussion on Child Labor at the National Conference of Charities and Correction, May 11, 1903

Addams comments about child labor, pointing out the difference between the educational opportunities child workers had a generation ago versus those working in factories in 1903.

Business Industry Labor

Jane Addams to William Byron Forbush, October 25, 1903

Addams asks Forbush for suggestions on neighborhood improvement for presentation at the National Council Charities and Corrections in Portland.

Conferences Requests Social Work

Jane Addams to Lucretia Treat, October 25, 1903

Addams asks Treat for suggestions on neighborhood improvement for presentation at the National Council Charities and Corrections in Portland.

Conferences Lectures Requests

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, May 1, 1904

Addams writes Haldeman regarding selling Stanley Linn's land for him, his health and summer plans, and invites her sister to attend her speech.

Family Finance Lectures

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, June 22, 1904

Addams writes Haldeman about an old acquaintance and the Conference of Charities and Corrections.

Friends Settlement Movement Travels

Neighborhood Improvement, June 22, 1904

Addams gave this speech at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, reporting on the activities of the Committee on Neighborhood Improvement.

Conferences Lectures Social Work

Address on Neighborhood Improvement, June 25, 1904 (Extract)

Article summarizes and quotes from Addams' speech and comments on neighborhood improvement at the National Conference of Charities and Correction.

Conferences Lectures Social Work

Statement on a Conference Held at Hull-House, June 9, 1906

Statement on a conference held at Hull-House.

Courts Crime Enforcement Law Youth

Jane Addams to Oscar Solomon Straus, November 12, 1908

Addams provides Straus with information on the Committee on Immigrants program coming up at the Conference of Charities and Correction.

Charity Conferences Requests

Gino C. Speranza to Jane Addams, November 15, 1908

Speranza thanks Addams for her letter and praises her work, inviting her to come see what he is working on in New York.

Immigration Industry Praise

H. A. Stevens to Jane Addams, November 23, 1908

Writing on behalf of Oscar Straus, Stevens writes Addams that he has not received the bulletin she promised.

Requests

Oscar Solomon Straus to Jane Addams, December 5, 1908

Straus declines Addams' request to participate on the Committee on Immigrants of the National Conference of Charities and Correction because of his position as Secretary of Commerce and Labor.

Immigration Labor Requests Unemployment

Jane Addams to David Bressler, March 18, 1909

Addams invites Bressler to give a paper at a program on immigration she is planning for the Conference of Charities and Correction.

Conferences Immigrants Requests

Jane Addams to David Bressler, March 31, 1909

Addams writes Bressler with details regarding the presentation of his upcoming lecture.

Lectures Requests

Immigrants: Report of the Committee, June 12, 1909

Addams argues that even as immigration has caused congestion in cities, it has also brought cultural beauty, which Americans should embrace and enjoy. This speech was given at the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Buffalo on June 12, 1909.

Charity Conferences Immigrants

Remarks at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, June 12, 1909

As chair of a session, Addams comments on the papers presented regarding immigration at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections at Buffalo.

Immigrants Labor Lectures

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June [15], [1909]

Addams reports to Smith on events at the National Conference on Charities and Correction.

Conferences Settlement Movement

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, June 17, 1909

Addams reports on the National Conference on Charities and Corrections and shares news with Haldeman about her trip to Buffalo.

Conferences Family Travels

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June 17, 1909

Addams writes Smith about her acceptance speech as president and some of the work of the National Conference on Charities and Correction.

Conferences Onsite Travels

Immigrants, June 26, 1909

Addams reviews the research and papers of her colleagues on the topics of immigration, employment, and education at the National Charities and Correction meeting.

Conferences Immigrants Juvenile Delinquency Labor Prostitution

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, December 13, 1909

Lindsey sends Addams a copy of a letter he wrote to the president of the National Congress of Mothers and sends news about an upcoming meeting of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections in St. Louis.

Courts Meetings

Walter Rauschenbusch to Jane Addams, February 24, 1910

Rauschenbusch declines Addams' invitation to participate at the National Conference on Charities and Correction in St. Louis because he has been so busy traveling and lecturing since the fall.

Hull-House Lectures Onsite Travels

Jane Addams to Robert Archey Woods, March 8, 1910

Addams asks Woods his opinion about planning a meeting of settlement workers who attend the annual meeting of the National Conference on Charities and Correction in May in St. Louis.

Settlements

Jane Addams, Mary Eliza McDowell, Graham Taylor to South End Residents, April 2, 1910

Addams, McDowell, and Taylor invite the Residents of South End House to a meeting of settlement workers in advance of the National Conference of Charities and Correction meeting in St. Louis.

Conferences Philanthropy Requests

St Louis Speech, May 23, 1910

Louise de Koven Bowen presented the report of the Children's Committee of the National Conference on Charities and Correction for Jane Addams, discussing the lives of children in tenements and proposing more resources for recreation for them. The speech was given during a session on Children held on May 23.

Child Labor Child Welfare Children Conferences Education Lectures

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, May 11, 1910

Lindsey informs Addams that he will be unable to the National Conference on Charities and Correction in St. Louis later in the month.

Conferences Politics

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, May 16, 1910

Addams reports to Smith that she is settled into her hotel in St. Louis and ready for her speech at the National Conference on Charities and Correction.

Friends Travels Writings

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, May 19, 1910

Addams writes Smith from St. Louis about her participation in the the National Conference on Charities and Correction.

Conferences

Jane Addams to J. R. Elston, May 19, 1910

Addams sends material to Elston.

Conferences Requests Writings

Charity and Social Justice, May 19, 1910

Printed version of Addams' Presidential Address at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, held in St. Louis on May 19-26. Addams reviews the history of charity work and the challenges ahead. She gives examples from her experiences at Hull-House and others.

Charity Child Welfare Conferences Education Lectures Philanthropy Social Reform Social Work

Charity and Social Justice, May 19, 1910

Addams' Presidential Address at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, held in St. Louis on May 19-26. Addams reviews the history of charity work and the challenges ahead. She gives examples from her experiences at Hull-House and others.

Charity Child Welfare Conferences Lectures Philanthropy Recreation Settlement Movement Social Reform Social Work

Charity and Social Justice, June 11, 1910

Printed version of Addams' Presidential Address at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, held in St. Louis on May 19-26. Addams reviews the history of charity work and the challenges ahead. She gives examples from her experiences at Hull-House and others.

Charity Child Welfare Conferences Education Lectures Philanthropy Social Reform Social Work

Charity and Social Justice, May 19, 1910 (excerpt)

Newspaper report of Addams' speech at the conference of Charities and Correction in St. Louis discussing state of charitable work.

Charity Lectures Poverty Social Work

Interview at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, May 22, 1910

Addams argues that the role of women in society is broadening and will continue to expand in future.

Lectures Politics Settlement Movement Social Reform Theater

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, May 27, 1910

Addams writes Smith about the end of the National Conference on Charities and Corrections in St. Louis and sends an update on her health and travel plans.

Conferences Travels

Arthur Piper Kellogg to Charles Read Nutter, June 24, 1910

Kellogg sends a list of authors and subjects for a book and includes Addams' article "Charity and Social Justice."

Civil Rights Labor Publishing Writings

James Edward West to Jane Addams, July 5, 1910

West asks Addams to write an article about the plight of widows for the magazine, The Delineator.

Family Requests Social Welfare

Jane Addams to Joseph Krauskopf, April 4, 1911

Addams declines Krauskopf's invitation to speak at the National Farm School due to her engagement at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections.

Family Requests

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, June 6, 1911

Addams writes Smith about the National Conference on Charities and Corrections and sends hopes to see her soon.

Conferences Travels

Standards of Education in Industrial Life, June 8, 1911

In this speech at the National Conference of Charities and Correction in Boston, Addams calls on educators and social workers to demand useful education for children so that they are better prepared for a life in industry.

Child Labor Education Immigrants Labor Lectures

The Call of the Social Field, June 12, 1911

In this speech to the National Conference on Charities and Correction meeting in Boston, Addams discusses the qualities that attract people to social work as an occupation and as a way of life, dedicated to the greater good of society.

Education Lectures Social Work Socialism Sociology

Speech on Woman Suffrage, June 17, 1911

Addams argues that woman suffrage is long overdue.

Immigrants Lectures Woman Suffrage

Max Senior to Jane Addams, January 4, 1912

Senior sends Addams a memorandum regarding saloon licences (not found) from a committee of the National Conference of Charities and Correction for her opinion.

Legislation Requests

Helen Louise Hatch to Jane Addams, January 27, 1912

After Addams declined an invitation to speak at the Industrial School Association in Detroit, Hatch writes in the hopes of scheduling another time and to solicit ideas for a replacement.

Requests Settlements

Gino C. Speranza to Jane Addams, June 17, 1912

Speranza explains that he will not be in Cleveland for the conference and cannot discuss his manuscript with Addams at that time.

Travels Writings

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Robert Weeks DeForest, July 3, 1912

Kellogg writes DeForest about organizational changes and the addition of new members to board of The Survey.

Memberships

The Progressive Party and Social Legislation, September 18, 1912

Addams reports on the Progressive Party Convention, discussing how items were added to its platform, particularly labor and military planks, and her dismay about the conventions unjust treatment of African-Americans. This is one of a series of articles she prepared as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

African-Americans Government Labor Legislation Memberships Military Patriotism Peace Politics Public Health Racism War Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Woman and the Ballot: The Progressive View, October 6, 1912

Addams provides the Progressive take on Woman and the Ballot for a symposium in the Chicago Record-Herald. She discusses the process by which the government and politicians have taken up philanthropic work and argues that the Progressive Party is taking on many of the reforms philanthropists have been working on for years.

Philanthropy Politics Social Welfare Woman Suffrage

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