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Hunton, Wiliam Alphaeus (1865-1916)

African-Americans Canada Social Work United States

Jelliffe, Russell W. (1891-1980)

African-Americans Civil Rights Settlement Movement United States

Norfolk Journal and Guide Also known as New Journal and Guide

African-Americans Journalism United States

South Carolina Federation of Colored Women's Clubs (SCFCWC)

African-Americans Education Race Women's Rights

Hull-House Community Club

African-Americans Clubs Hull-House Women

The Church of the Good Shepherd

African-Americans Religion

Washington Intercollegiate Club

African-Americans Education

Paige, Mabeth Hurd (1870-1961)

African-Americans Canada Civil Rights Politics United States Women's Rights

Associated Negro Press (ANP)

African-Americans Civil Rights International Affairs Journalism United States

Barnett, Claude Albert (1889-1967)

African-Americans International Affairs Journalism Philanthropy United States

Bethune-Cookman University

African-Americans Education

American Negro Labor Congress

African-Americans Communism United States

Jane Addams to George Arthur, June 26, 1929

Addams sends Arthur information about the International Congress of Women and hopes that he will support Addie Hunton's travel costs.

African-Americans Conferences Peace Requests

Arthur, George Robert (1879-1941)

African-Americans Charity Social Welfare United States

Jane Addams to Salmon Oliver Levinson, December 1, 1927

Addams asks Levinson to renew his donation to Hull-House.

African-Americans Hull-House Immigrants Requests

Carter, Elizabeth H. Madison (1865-1929)

African-Americans United States

Carter, Carrielee (1896-1970)

African-Americans Home Economics United States Women's Rights

Fourth Pan-African Congress (1928)

African-Americans Conferences Race

Cooper, Lottie (1885?-?)

African-Americans Civil Rights United States

Dunbar-Nelson, Alice Moore (1875-1935)

African-Americans Education Journalism Poetry United States Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson to Jane Addams, February 20, 1929

Dunbar-Nelson invites Addams to join the American Interracial Peace Committee.

African-Americans Memberships Music Peace Requests

Sweet, Ossian (1895-1960)

African-Americans Civil Rights Crime Medicine

Edwin Rogers Embree to Jane Addams, October 31, 1928

Embree asks Addams for a book on Mexicans in Chicago and suggests she consult with Franklin McLean on his work on Black medical care.

African-Americans Books Public Health Requests

Thora Daugaard to Jane Addams, April 19, 1928

Daugaard tells Addams about her activities in California.

African-Americans Peace Travels

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 20, 1928

Addams urges Blaine to support the Chicago Urban League.

African-Americans Charity Onsite Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 12, 1927

Addams asks Blaine to renew her annual gift to Hull-House.

African-Americans Finances Hull-House Requests

Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life

African-Americans Publications

Charles Henry Dennis to Jane Addams, June 17, 1925

Dennis tells Addams that he will be out of the city and cannot participate in the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People dinner.

African-Americans Requests

Jane Addams to James Weldon Johnson, September 29, 1925

Addams thanks Johnson for sending her a copy of his new book, The Book of American Negro Spirituals.

African-Americans Books Literature

Walter Francis White to Charles Francis Dorr Belden, August 28, 1925

White asks Belden not to create a segregated library school at Hampton Institute because African-Americans have been able to enroll in existing schools without trouble.

African-Americans Education Library Racism Requests

Walter Francis White to Jane Addams, August 29, 1925

White seeks Addams's support in opposition to the American Library Association opposing the creation of a segregated school at Hampton Institute.

African-Americans Education Library Racism Requests

James Edgar Gregg to Jane Addams, September 23, 1925

Gregg tells Addams why he believes that the Hampton University Library School will not set back the cause of desegregation in the library profession.

African-Americans Education Library Racism

Hull-House: An Experiment in Social Service, March 12, 1923 (excerpts)

Addams discusses Hull-House and answers questions from an audience in Madras.

African-Americans Hull-House Immigrants India Lectures Social Work Temperance

Oak, Vishnu Vitthal (1895-1982)

African-Americans Economics Education India United States

James Stanley Durkee to Jane Addams, March 31, 1924

Durkee tells Addams that Howard University is willing to host delegates from the International Congress of Women.

African-Americans Conferences Music Peace Requests

Daytona Literary and Training School for Negro Girls

African-Americans Education

Fisk Jubilee Singers

African-Americans Music

Statement on Birth of a Nation, March 13, 1915

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

African-Americans Film Racism Social Justice

Jane Addams to Amy Woods, August 3, 1924

Addams asks Woods about a small fund drive to cover printing costs and inviting more Black pacifists to the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

African-Americans Finances Onsite Peace