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The Progressive Party and the Negro, November 1912

Addams explains her support of African-American delegates at the the Progressive Party Convention in Chicago. This article, which appeared in The Crisis, was one of a series of articles she prepared for the election of 1912.

Abolition African-Americans Politics Racism

The Progressive Party and the Negro, November 1912

Addams explains her support for African-American delegates at the the Progressive Party Convention in Chicago. This is one of a series of articles she prepared as part of the Progressive Party campaign in 1912.

African-Americans Democracy Politics Racism

Has the Emancipation Act Been Nullified by National Indifference? February 1, 1913 (fragment)

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

African-Americans Democracy Politics Racism

Abraham Lincoln Lee to Jane Addams, February 12, 1913

Lee thanks Addams for her statement in the article Has "Has Emancipation Been Nullified," and praises Abraham Lincoln, and discusses slavery and the virtues of liberty.

African-Americans History Patriotism Public Opinion Racism

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 13, 1913

Addams asks Blaine for a donation to support an African American settlement in Chicago.

African-Americans Requests Settlements

Joel Elias Spingarn to Paul Underwood Kellogg, April 17, 1913

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

African-Americans Progressive Race Requests

Memorandum re the Progressive Service and the Negro, April 17, 1913

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

African-Americans Race

William A. D. Venerable, to Jane Addams, October 29 1913

Venerable asks Addams for her support in the development of a Tuskegee-like school in the Midwest.

African-Americans Education Requests

Edward T. Ware to Jane Addams, February 5, 1914

Ware asks Addams for advice for a fundraising visit to Chicago to benefit Atlanta University.

African-Americans Charities Education Requests

Florence Wells to Edward T. Ware, February 9, 1914

Wells informs Ware that Addams is out of the city, and his letter has been given to Sophonisba Breckenridge, who in interested in the advancement of African-Americans.

African-Americans Requests

Oswald Garrison to Villard to Jane Addams, June 12, 1914 (fragment)

Villard seeks Addams' help in requesting a donation from Anita McCormick Blaine.

African-Americans Philanthropy Requests

Secretary to Jane Addams to Maggie Murray Washington, February 2, 1915

Addams' secretary tells Washington that she has included describing that Addams suggested her to become president of the National Association of Colored Women.

African-Americans Peace

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

Review of Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, May 1915

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

African-Americans Plays Racism

Brief Summary of the Work of the Chicago Urban League, August 1, 1917

The Urban League reports the organizations, government agencies, and newspapers that it works with and describes its activities, including employment and welfare work.

African-Americans Employment Social Work

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, August 18, 1917

Addams sends Blaine literature on the work of the Chicago Urban League.

African-Americans

William Edward Dodd to Jane Addams, January 29, 1919

Dodd offers Addams his ideas on the peace efforts, economic repression, race, and increasing the birth rate.

African-Americans Peace Praise Race World War I

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 17, 1919

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

African-Americans Friends Thanks

Jane Addams to W. E. B. Du Bois, November 8, 1920

Addams advises Du Bois on using funds from the Crisis to pay costs of investigating the history of Black troops in Europe.

African-Americans Military

Matthew A. N. Shaw to Jane Addams and Oswald Garrison Villard, November 24, 1920 (summary)

Shaw asks Addams and Villard to investigate Black lynchings once their inquiry on Ireland is completed.

African-Americans Racism Requests

Mary Church Terrell to Jane Addams, March 18, 1921

Terrell tells Addams that she cannot sign a petition calling for the removal of African-American soldiers from Germany on accusations of abuse of women. Terrell believes that it is race prejudice.

African-Americans Crime Military World War I

Jane Addams to Mary Church Terrell, March 29, 1921

Addams agrees with Terrell's objection to calling for the removal of black French troops in Germany and invites her to attend the local meeting where the issue is on the agenda.

African-Americans Military Onsite Racism

Walter Francis White to Jane Addams, July 14, 1921

White tells Addams that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People decided to fund the Pan-African Congress and asks for her contribution.

African-Americans Conferences Finances Requests

Zerlina Hackes Bettman to Jane Addams, June 4, 1922

Bettman writes to discuss Addams's latest book, Peace and Bread in Time of War.

African-Americans Books

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

Mary Rozet Smith to Edith Franklin Wyatt, April 30, 1923

Smith tells Wyatt that she and Addams are reading her book and takes care of her charitable donations.

African-Americans Books Philanthropy Travels

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

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

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

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