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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 Men 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.

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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

Tod, Robert Elliot (1867-1944)

Finance Finances Immigrants Immigration Men Philanthropy Public Works

Hurlbutt, Mary Emerson (1888-1980)

Education Immigrants Immigration Social Work Travels Women

Mitchell, Ruth Crawford (1890-1984)

Education Immigrants Immigration Women

Clark, Elizabeth W. (?-?)

Immigrants Women

Beth, Marianne Weisl (1889-1984)

Conferences Education Immigrants Immigration Lectures Memberships Woman Suffrage Women Women's Rights Writing Writings

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, May 6, 1920

Kellogg suggests changes for Addams article about Samuel Barnett.

Books Immigrants Requests Settlement Movement Writings

Miss Addams' Views on the Deportations, February 23, 1920

Addams accuses the editor of the Chicago Tribune of unfair coverage of her address, and explains her position on political deportations.

Criticism Democracy Free Speech Immigrants Journalism Labor Lectures

Charles Wesley Mosher to Jane Addams, February 24, 1920

Mosher writes Addams to criticize her remarks regarding political deportations.

Anti-radicalism Crime Criticism Government Immigrants Immigration Politics

Attorney Ferguson Speaks., January 14, 1920

An editorial supports most of Charles Ferguson's takes on radicalism, but does not support his idea that colleges promote radicalism.

Anarchism Anti-radicalism Articles Communism Education Free Speech Immigrants

Kate F. O'Connor to Jane Addams, January 15, 1920

O'Connor sends Addams some clippings about attacks on her and Hull-House, and tells her that she is loved.

Anti-radicalism Immigrants Praise Public Opinion

Harry Rubens to William Fisher Byron, January 9, 1920

Rubens tells Byron that his German relief society is no longer active and points him to the German-American Relief Society.

Immigrants Relief Efforts

Henry Rowland Curtis to Jane Addams, February 23, 1920

Curtis criticizes Addams' defense of immigrants and her views of political deportations.

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Jane Addams to Edward Scott Beck, February 23, 1920

Addams accuses Beck (the editor of the Chicago Tribune) of misleading coverage of her address at the Auditorium and demands a correction be published.

Criticism Free Speech Immigrants Journalism Lectures