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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

Wright, Richard Robert, Jr. (1878-1967)

African-Americans Education Journalism Religion Sociology

Wright, Lillian Blanche (c. 1882-?)

African-Americans

Williams, Samuel Laing (1864-1921)

African-Americans Law

William Monroe Trotter to Jane Addams, August 6-7, 1912

Trotter praises Addams' public opposition to the exclusion of black delegates at the Progressive Party Convention and asks her to consider opposing Theodore Roosevelt.

African-Americans Praise Public Opinion Race

William English Walling to Jane Addams, June 8, 1909

Walling invites Addams to join the permanent committee created from the Conference on the Status of the Negro.

African-Americans Conferences Requests

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

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

Wendell Phillips Settlement House

African-Americans Settlements

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Wells, Ida B. (1862-1931) Also known as Wells-Barnett, Ida B. (1862-1931)

African-Americans Civil Rights Race Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Washington, Maggie Murray (1865-1925)

African-Americans

Washington, Booker T. (1856-1915)

African-Americans Civil Rights Education Lectures

Washington Intercollegiate Club

African-Americans Education

Ware, Alice Holdship (1872-1965)

African-Americans Civil Rights Education Plays Religion Theater Writing Writings

Walters, Alexander (1858-1917)

African-Americans Civil Rights Religion

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

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

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

Waller, Owen Meredith (1868-1939)

African-Americans Civil Rights Health Religion

Waldron, John Milton (1863-1931)

African-Americans Civil Rights Religion

W. E. B. Du Bois to Jane Addams, April 19, 1905

Du Bois invites Addams to speak for twenty minutes at the Tenth Annual Conference for the Study of the Negro Problems.

African-Americans Conferences Lectures

W. E. B. Du Bois to Jane Addams, May 14, 1908 (fragment)

Du Bois discusses arrangements for Addams' participation in the Conference for the Study of Negro Problems in Atlanta, Georgia.

African-Americans Conferences Lectures

Venerable, William Alexander D. (1870-1948)

African-Americans Education Religion

Tuskegee Institute Also known as Tuskegee University

African-Americans Education

Trice, Charles, D. (1865-1924)

African-Americans Medicine

Townsend, James Matthew (1841-1913)

African-Americans Education Politics Religion

To Tour the Country, 1908

A pamphlet listing Theophile T. Allain's credentials as a lecturer.

African-Americans Lectures

Tillman, Katherine Davis Chapman (1870-1922)

African-Americans Literature Poetry

Thora Daugaard to Jane Addams, April 19, 1928

Daugaard tells Addams about her activities in California.

African-Americans Peace Travels

Thompson, Eloise Bibb (1886-1928)

African-Americans Plays Poetry Settlement Movement Settlements Social Work

Theophile T. Allain to Jane Addams, August 9, 1912.

Allain asks Addams why the Progressive Party Platform abandoned African Americans.

African-Americans Public Opinion

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, October 31, 1911

Roosevelt compliments Addams's article in McClure's, which argues that woman's suffrage will lift up women from vice. But he also offers a caution that women's suffrage could fail to impart real change as suffrage failed to impart real change for African Americans in the South.

African-Americans Civil Rights Morality Politics Social Purity Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Progressive Party and the Negro, November 1912 (fragment)

Partial galley proof of Addams's article about her experiences at 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.

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

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 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.

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