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Mary Allan Stuart to Jane Addams, July 25, 1916

Stuart asks Addams for support to defend Bouck White, a cartoonist who has been imprisoned for desecrating the American flag.

Crime Internationalism Military Requests War

Mabel L. Hyers to Grace Waring Stoy, September 16, 1915

Hyers denies that Mrs. J. K. Weston was a representative of the Woman's Peace Party.

Crime Peace

M. M. B. to Jane Addams, December 5, 1920

The author asks Addams to try to stop Nicholas Viana's execution.

Crime Onsite Prisons Requests

Lynch Six Negroes; Trick Sheriff's Son, May 22, 1911 Also known as Lynched Two in Ten Days, May 22, 1911

Newspaper report of the lynching of six black men in Lake City, Florida, accused of murdering Robert B. Smith, a prominent white man.

African-Americans Crime Crime Enforcement Racism

Lucy Hoesch Ernst to Jane Addams, March 14, 1921

Ernst tells Addams that she thinks the French occupation of the Rhine should not be stopped and that American women should resist the urge to object.

Crime Foreign Policy France Germany International Affairs Relief Efforts United States

Louis Folwell Hart to American Civil Liberties Union, December 19, 1923

Hart tells the ACLU that the prisoners that they asked to be released have refused parole until other prisoners were freed.

Anti-radicalism Crime Requests

Sixty Prisoners Sentenced, January 14, 1921 Also known as Lord Mayor of Cork

A Guardian clipping reports that sixty men were sentenced to ten years imprisonment for connection to the Caherguillamore shootings and that the Lord Mayor of Cork testified in Washington.

Crime England Ireland Peace War

Let Children Play, Says Jane Addams, March 25, 1911

Addams argues that if children have a chance to play outside they are less likely to become criminals.

Crime Lectures Recreation Youth

L. H. Knox to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, December 7, 1920

Knox takes issues with Addams's opposition to capital punishment, offering examples of English justice.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism England

Katherine Devereux Blake to Jane Addams, June 12, 1929

Blake asks Addams for support in promoting gun control.

Crime Peace Requests

Just a Few Facts about Why Men Return to Prisons, ca. October 1925

Grimes discusses problems with the justice system that result in prisoners returning to crime.

Crime Prisons

Jeanette Flitcraft Stetson to Jane Addams, August 12, 1927

Stetson asks Addams to protest the Sacco and Vanzetti execution.

Anti-radicalism Crime Government Requests

Jane Addams: The Juvenile Adult Offender, October 1913

Addams explains how educational background, economic situations, and family predicaments have an impact on juvenile crime; and she argues for special treatment of the "juvenile adult." This is the tenth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a women's roles in affecting change.

Crime Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Prisons Youth

Jane Addams to Woodrow Wilson, May 20, 1914

Addams telegrams the president asking him to hear the Ludlow delegation about the violence done to striking workers.

Crime Government Labor Requests

Jane Addams to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, December 4, 1920

Addams defends her views on capital punishment, replying to a critical editorial.

Courts Crime Juvenile Delinquency

Jane Addams to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, December 4, 1920

Addams defends her views against capital punishment for minors.

Courts Crime Juvenile Delinquency

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, March 24, 1908

Addams writes Haldeman about her speaking tour of women's colleges and concerns about Hull-House.

Crime Family Hull-House Lectures Travels

Jane Addams to Maria B. McCabe Hall, October 21, 1912

Breckinridge suggests some options to Hall, who is searching for a long lost aunt.

Crime Requests

Jane Addams to Calvin Coolidge, August 9, 1927

Addams asks Hoover for clemency for Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti as a means of foreign-born Americans

Anti-radicalism Crime Government Immigrants Requests

Jane Addams to Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius, August 30, 1916

Addams catches up with Haldeman-Julius and hopes to have her visit.

Crime Family Onsite

Jane Addams and Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Fremont Older, February 27, 1920

Addams and Breckinridge send Older a telegram defending Anna Whitney.

Anti-radicalism Crime

Jane Adams to Emily Caroline Fitten MacDougald, ca. March 25, 1914

Addams asks MacDougald to organize the women of Atlanta to seek a reprieve for Leo Frank in order to review the evidence.

Crime Requests Social Justice

Jail Two On Charge of Weeping Woman, 1927

News repors an assault on a woman by two men in Wisconsin.

Crime

Interview with Jane Addams, January 30, 1911

Addams and Marshall discuss play's positive effect on young children.

Children Crime Juvenile Delinquency Recreation

Information Sheet on Fred W. Guelzow Murderers, January 1912

A narrative describing the social and economic background of four men convicted of murdering Frank Guelzow.

Crime Crime Enforcement Immigrants Requests

Ill-Gotten Gifts to Colleges, November 1900

Scudder critiques colleges that accept donations from unethical sources.

Crime Education Finances Morality

How Much Social Work Can a Community Afford? May 26, 1926

Addams discusses the importance of social work to the health of a community in an address to the National Federation of Settlements in Cleveland.

Crime Ethics Labor Lectures Onsite Prohibition Psychology Social Work Socialism

How Much Social Work Can a Community Afford: From the Ethical Point of View, May 26, 1926

Addams discusses the value of social work at a mass meeting held at the National Conference of Social Work in Cleveland.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Ethics Morality Public Health Social Reform Social Work

Horace D. Jackson to Jane Addams, July 3, 1927

Jackson tells Addams his ideas about the cause of crime, blaming in part the message in David Harum, an 1896 novel by Edward Noyes Westcott.

Crime Religion

Henry Leunker to Jane Addams, September 16, 1913

A unwanted admirer writes to Addams.

Crime Love Public Opinion

Harriet Burton Laidlaw to William J. Gaynor, May 19, 1912

Laidlaw demands that Gaynor protect social workers operating in New York City's Chinatown .

Crime Crime Enforcement Government Politics Requests Settlements

Harriet Burton Laidlaw to Jane Addams, July 8, 1912

Laidlaw tells Addams about Rose Livingston's condition after being attacked for her anti-vice work.

Crime Gossip Human Trafficking Social Welfare

Girls Battle Youths In Auto On Lonely Road, August 8, 1927

News report of altercation between young men and women in Wauwatosa.

Crime

Girl Syndicalist Gets 1 to 14 Years in California, February 25, 1920

The Tribune reports on the sentence of social worker Anita Whitney.

Crime

Gino C. Speranza to Criminal Law and Criminology Committee on Crime and Immigration, December 8, 1910

Speranza asks the members of the Committee on Crime and Immigration to inform him of particular questions the committee should consider and that they will convene via correspondence due to the difficulty of scheduling a meeting of the group.

Crime Crime Enforcement Immigrants Microfilm

Fremont Older to Jane Addams, February 27, 1920

Older asks Addams for a statement protesting Anita Whitney's sentence for the San Francisco Call.

Crime Labor Requests

Freedom of Speech and Opinion a Crime, April 1920

An article that criticizes the imprisonment of Charlotte Whitney on the grounds of free speech.

Anarchism Anti-radicalism Crime Free Speech

Frederick H. Deknatel to the Editor of the New York Tribune, January 6, 1902

Deknatel writes on Addams behalf, disputing an article which states that she is in favor of lynching African-Americans.

African-Americans Crime

Everett Rich to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, December 6, 1920

Rich disputes Addams's views on capital punishment, claiming that sentimental opposition results in more crime.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism

Ellen Winsor to Jane Addams, May 8, 1921

Winsor thanks Addams for a peace pin, discusses her recent address and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom invitation letter.

Crime Free Speech Peace Thanks

Edward S. Grece to Jane Addams, July 5, 1927

Grece tells Addams that her speech failed to take into account Christian morality.

Crime Criticism Lectures Morality Peace Religion

E. Wayne Stahl to the Editor of the Rock Island Argus, December 11, 1920

Stahl criticizes Addams for her opposititon to capital punishment.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism

Dies From Wounds In Police Gun Duel, ca. June 13, 1927

Newspaper describes the death of victim of a police shooting.

Crime Death Police

Commission Seeking Remedy For Eradicating The Causes Which Make Social Outcasts, May 31, 1927 [fragment]

Article discusses the creation of an American Crime Study Commission to investigate the causes and prevention of crime.

Conferences Crime Lectures

Comments on Louis Satt Case, January 14, 1909 (excerpt)

Addams weighs in on the sentencing of Louis Satt, the brother of a Hull-House student.

Crime Hull-House

Comments on Hull-House Neighborhood, c. February 28, 1927 (excerpt)

The News summarizes Addams comments about the impact of Prohibition in the Hull-House neighborhood.

Crime Prohibition Youth

Comments on Abraham Isaak, September 9, 1901

Taylor and Addams discuss the arrest of Abraham Isaak.

Anarchism Crime Crime Enforcement Immigrants

Comments at National Juvenile Protection Association Founding, June 9, 1906 (excerpt)

At the inaugural meeting of the National Juvenile Protection Association held at Hull-House, Addams argues that the police should become educated about the needs of children.

Crime Juvenile Delinquency Lectures