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Newspaper coverage of Addams' statements involving her interest in the case of anarchist Abraham Isaak.

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Ovington proposes establishing a settlement to work with African-Americans in New York and asks Addams' advice.

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Addams is one of a number of people who sign a call for a conference to examine the situation of African-Americans since emancipation. Various versions of the call appeared in newspapers across the country.

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

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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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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.

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Addams invites Blaine to a meeting with Mary Ovington to help plan the conference for National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.

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Addams likens prison labor camps to slavery and discusses how unpaid prison labor impacts the families of the inmates.

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Addams explains the evils of unpaid prison labor. This is the fourth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's role to affect change.

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Addams and forty-five other women petition Wilson to halt the deportation of Emmeline Pankhurst.

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Addams gives an interview on the state of women in America.

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The Woman's Peace Party outlines steps that peace activists can take once war is declared.

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Addams and Wald ask Parker to sign a letter to Woodrow Wilson calling for the maintenance of democratic institutions during war time.

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The Chicago branch of the Woman's Peace Party suggests that pacifists work on food conservation, child welfare, better conditions for soldiers, a defense of civil rights and plans for financing the war.

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A list of names of people likely to join the national committee of the Liberty Defense Union.

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Karsten asks Baldwin not to use Addams's name with the Liberty Defense Union until she has agreed to have it used.

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Addams tells Baldwin that there is not enough evidence with regard to the Industrial Workers of the World Defense Committee for her to contact the President.

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Addams offers comments on Roger Baldwin's statement regarding the Industrial Workers of the World Defense Committee.

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Addams reluctantly declines to sign on to Baldwin's appeal for funds to defend Industrial Workers of the World workers arrested by the government.

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Addams tells Stokes that she cannot leave Chicago to attend the National Civil Liberties Bureau meeting in Washington.

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Addams telegrams the National Civil Liberties Bureau that she cannot attend the Washington meeting.

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Addams tells Wood that she will join the Civil Liberties Bureau, but questions whether national groups are as effective as local ones.

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Gage discusses the role of open discussion with reference to the Haymarket uprising.

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Addams tells Harvier that she believes the apathy regarding civil liberties is slowing declining.

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The American Civil Liberties Union seeks approval of its statement of principles and the candidacy of Fremont Older to the National Committee.

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Spencer tells Addams about the work of the American section of Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in detail.

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Misař asks Addams for help to pressure England to stop the oppression going on in Hungary.

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American Civil Liberties Union defines its stance on first amendment rights, labor rights, law enforcement, immigration and racial equality.

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A form asking for potential members for the American Civil Liberties Union.

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Addams apologizes to Baldwin for not signing a support letter but notes that she is wary of signing on causes that she is not familiar with.

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Addams tells De Silver not to use her name on an American Civil Liberties Union advertisement in support of an International Workers of the World case.

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De Silver asks Addams whether the American Civil Liberties Union can use her name in an advertisement regarding the trial of International Workers of the World leaders on espionage and sedition.

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Addams discusses the crack down on radicals who opposed World War I.

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Addams signs a petition to Coolidge asking to restore voting rights for those prosecuted under the Espionage Act.

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Addams congratulates Schwimmer on the court decision in her legal case.

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