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Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 18, 1927

Addams sends Borah a clipping to explains her support of clemency in the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Crime Enforcement Requests Social Justice

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 22, 1927

Addams thanks Borah for helping the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

Crime Enforcement Government Gratitude Social Justice

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 22, 1927

Addams thanks Borah for assisting the Sacco and Vanzetti defense.

Crime Enforcement Government Gratitude 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's Plea, August 23, 1927

The Post criticizes Addams’s arguments against the execution of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Criticism Government Journalism

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, August 14, 1908

Lloyd asks Addams to write an editorial about the Averbuch Incident for Unity in order to address the hysteria it generated.

Anarchism Crime Enforcement Requests Russia

John Hubert Mee to Jane Addams, November 7, 1911

Mee offers a lawyer's perspective on Addams' white slavery article in McClure's Magazine and compliments her grasp of the legislation.

Crime Enforcement Law Legislation Praise Public Opinion Social Class White Slavery Writings

John Lovejoy Elliott to Charles C. Cooper, August 30, 1927

Elliott tells Cooper that he opposes capital punishment but does not think that all settlement people agree.

Crime Enforcement Settlements

Killian Kotty to Jane Addams, August 1, 1927

Kotty tells Addams that reformers are the cause of moral laxity and that bringing back saloons and red light districts will improve morality.

Crime Enforcement Criticism Morality 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

League for the Abolition of Capital Punishment flyer, ca. October 1926

A flyer advertises a public event to promote efforts to end the death penalty in New York. This was held on January 31, 1927.

Crime Enforcement Lectures

Lewis E. Lawes to Jane Addams, January 24, 1926

Lawes asks Addams to donate funds to help abolish the death penalty in New York.

Crime Enforcement Requests

Lillian D. Wald to Jane Addams, May 6, 1916

Wald writes Addams about efforts to communicate with Germany and Austria about charges against Alice Masaryk.

Austria Crime Enforcement Death Germany Hungary Politics World War I

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

Mary Glynn Collins to Jane Addams, December 4, 1920

Collins informs Addams of efforts in Colorado to lobby for a commutation of Nicholas Viana's death sentence.

Crime Enforcement Requests

Miss Addams, April 1913

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.

Civil Rights Crime Enforcement Labor Prisons Social Welfare

Problems of Municipal Administration, January 1905 Also known as Municipal Administration, September 1904

Addams finds the causes for breakdowns in municipal administration in eighteenth century idealism that foundered against nineteenth century increases in population, industry and commerce. This speech was originally given on September 25, 1904 at the International Congress of Arts and Sciences in St. Louis, MO.

Business Crime Enforcement Democracy Education Gambling Government Labor Politics

Oswald Garrison Villard to Jane Addams, May 24, 1911

Villard asks Addams to protest the lynchings of six black men in Florida.

Crime Enforcement Racism Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg and Norman Hapgood to Jane Addams, August 1927

Kellogg and Hapgood ask Addams to support an effort to get a new trial for Sacco and Vanzetti.

Crime Enforcement Government Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, April 30, 1929

Kellogg tells Addams about a crime study by William Bolitho that was funded by Anita Blaine.

Chicago Crime Crime Enforcement Journalism Research

Problem of Crime Unsolved, Let Us Start at It Anew, May 30, 1927

Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Crime Enforcement Disarmament Juvenile Delinquency Law Lectures Prisons Social Work

Problem of Crime Unsolved, Let Us Start at It Anew, May 30, 1927

Addams discusses the increasing rate of juvenile crime and the efforts to combat it at a meeting of the American Crime Study Commission.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Enforcement Disarmament Juvenile Delinquency Law Lectures Prisons Social Work

Problems of Municipal Administration, 1906

Addams finds the causes for breakdowns in municipal administration in eighteenth century idealism that foundered against nineteenth century increases in population, industry and commerce. The speech was originally given on September 25, 1904 at the International Congress of Arts and Sciences in St. Louis, MO.

Business Crime Enforcement Democracy Education Gambling Government Labor Politics

Quotes Edmund Burke in a Letter on Sacco-Vanzetti, ca. August 1927

Newspaper reports on Brown's letter to the Boston Herald regarding the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

Crime Enforcement

Raymond Robins to the New York City Health Department, May 25, 1903

Robins requests information about how New York marks residences with members suffering from infectious diseases.

Crime Enforcement Public Health Requests

Respect for Law, January 3, 1901

Addams' argues that mob violence, and particularly lynching against African Americans in the South, erodes respect for the all among all groups and accomplishes nothing positive for any community that condones it.

African-Americans Crime Enforcement Writings

Rev. E. B. Young Supports Courts, August 22, 1927

Young argues to the editor that outsiders should not question the justice system.

Crime Enforcement Criticism

Robert Morss Lovett to Jane Addams, August 16, 1927

Lovett tells Addams he will print her note on the Sacco and Vanzetti trial and shares family news.

Anarchism Crime Enforcement Family Health

Robert Morss Lovett to Jane Addams, October 26, 1927

Lovett asks Addams to join the Committee, offering an outline of its goals.

Crime Enforcement Memberships Requests

Safety Above Sentimentality, December 4, 1920

The Tribune praises Governor Lowden's decision to allow Nicholas Viana to be executed and calls Addams's appeal sentimental.

Crime Crime Enforcement Criticism

Signers of the Petition for Flemish Amnesty, ca. October 17, 1927

A list of people who signed a petition in support of amnesty for Flemish Nationalists imprisoned after World War I.

Anti-radicalism Belgium Crime Enforcement Requests

Speech to the National Conference of Social Work, May 16, 1927 (excerpts)

Addams argues for gun control and placing more faith in the younger generation.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Youth

State Should Keep Families of Convicts, October 5, 1912

Addams defends the Progressive Party plank that calls for the salaries earned by prisoners to be sent to support their dependent families.

Crime Enforcement Government Prisons Social Welfare

Statement on a Conference Held at Hull-House, June 9, 1906

Statement on a conference held at Hull-House.

Courts Crime Enforcement Law Youth

The Aftermath of the War, January 5, 1922

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

Anti-radicalism Civil Rights Crime Enforcement Government Labor Peace Socialism

The Juvenile Adult Offender, July 22, 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." The article was published in October 1913.

Courts Crime Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Prisons Youth

The Larger Aspects of the Woman's Movement, November 1914

Addams details the many reasons why it is important that women be given the right to vote, and of how the suffrage movement is not just found in Western nations, but globally.

Child Labor Child Welfare Crime Enforcement Employment England Feminism Finland Gender Roles Industry Morality Philanthropy Politics Social Reform Social Welfare Woman Suffrage Women's Rights Writings

The Position of the American Civil Liberties Union on the Issues in the United States Today, May 1920

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

Civil Rights Crime Enforcement Education Free Speech Government Immigration Law Race United States

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The Reaction of Modern Life upon Religious Education, February 11, 1910

Addams explains the relationship between education, religion, labor, and crime as she has experienced it in Chicago.

Crime Enforcement Education Juvenile Delinquency Religion

Unknown (B. F.) to the Editor of the New York Evening Post, May 29, 1908

B. F. writes in praise of Addams' article "The Chicago Settlements and Social Unrest" in Charity and the Commons, discussing the role of the settlement in integrating immigrants into city life.

Anarchism Crime Enforcement Immigrants Race Settlements