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Address on Settlements, June 24, 1909 (Summary)

A summary of Addams' address about Hull-House and its relationship with the neighbors it supports.

Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlements

Feeding Europe and Saving America, February 19, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams spoke to the Reading Chamber of Commerce on the role that the United States could play in reducing the humanitarian crisis in Europe.

Europe Food Shortages Foreign Policy Hull-House Immigrants Peace Recreation Relief Efforts Settlement Movement

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 21, 1920 (summary)

Addams's discussion of the role of immigrants in America was summarized in the published proceedings of the Biennial of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Des Moines.

Censorship Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

Address to the Friends' General Conference on Americanization, July 8, 1920 (summary)

Addams contrasts the way immigrants are treated in the United States in the 1890s and 1920s.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

Speech to the American Friends Service Committee Reunion, June 24, 1920

Addams discusses changes in American civil liberties after World War I.

Free Speech Immigrants Lectures Nationalism Patriotism

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 21, 1920 (excerpt)

Addams argues for women to be able to hold citizenship on their own merits, rather than on the status of their husbands. This speech was given at the General Federation of Women's Clubs, in Des Moines.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts Woman Suffrage

Statement on the Foreign Women's Vote, May 24, 1920

Addams calls for getting all Chicago women to the polls at a joint meeting of Chicago Women's Clubs.

Immigrants Lectures Woman Suffrage

Americanization, March 13, 1920

Addams discusses the way Americans should view immigrants and European relief efforts.

Education Food Shortages Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

The Wards of a Great City, February 29, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams discusses European food shortage and the responsibility of government toward feeding people at the First Methodist Church in Evanston.

Immigrants Lectures Relief Efforts

Sacco, Nicola (1891-1927)

Anarchism Anti-radicalism Crime Immigrants Italy NHPRC

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 NHPRC Requests

The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the need to understand the poor in order to solve the problems of poverty.

Charity Immigrants Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement Social Work

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 21, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams and Catt opposes the efforts of the government to deport immigrant radicals because of their political beliefs.

Anti-radicalism Censorship Criticism Free Speech Government Immigrants Lectures

Speech at Auditorium Recital Hall, February 21, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams opposes the efforts of the government to deport immigrant radicals.

Anti-radicalism Government Immigrants Lectures

German-American Relief Society

Germany Immigrants Relief Efforts

Palmer Raids (1919-1920)

Anarchism Communism Government Immigrants Socialism

Remarks at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, June 12, 1909

As chair of a session, Addams comments on the papers presented regarding immigration at the National Conference of Charities and Corrections at Buffalo.

Immigrants Labor Lectures