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Addams describes the efforts of Hull-House in a speech to the Sunset Club in Chicago.

Addams offers sympathy to Jewish peddlers at a meeting of the Chicago Protective League. This was excerpted from a longer article about the event.

Addams asks the Mayor for permission to see Abraham Isaak and other anarchists arrested in the wake of the McKinley assassination.

Taylor and Addams discuss the arrest of Abraham Isaak.

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

Also known as The Church and the Social Problem, September 25, 1901

Addams recalls the different difficulties in creating an inviting and educational space for Italian immigrants.

Addams provides an overview of the activities of the Hull-House Labor Museum, complete with illustrations of weaving. The sixteen-page report discusses the weaving and cloth-making techniques of various immigrants who live in the Hull-House neighborhood.

With Maud Booth, Addams addresses the Merchant's Club, appealing for aid in helping criminals and rescuing boys who may become criminals.

Addams speaks to the Franklin Street Settlement in Detroit about working in a settlement.

Addams addresses the Merchants Club of Chicago regarding the stealing and gambling habits of young, immigrant boys.

Addams discusses the need for better building regulations to prevent tenement fires.

Addams argues that tenement conditions are bad and that regulations are needed to prevent worsening conditions.

An excerpt of Addams' lecture on how settlement houses give people opportunities to practice arts and crafts, an important activity for immigrants afraid of losing their cultural heritage.

Addams discusses the Hull-House Labor Museum and the effect of factories on craftsmanship.

Addams discusses the education of immigrants

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

A copy of a speech about labor, philanthropy, and immigrants that Addams delivered to the National Council of Jewish Women.

Addams discusses the different methods of social work and describes how the settlement works to help society.

Addams summarizes the life and background of Italian immigrants living in Chicago.

Addams notes that immigrant families are used to having children work but do not see the difference between farm and factory work.

Addams' keynote speech at the University Settlement's annual meeting discusses the kind of settlements that build relationships and community.

Addams describes social settlement work and its impact on immigrant neighborhoods.

Addams tells Blaine that she is speaking with Dr. Hirsch about "Our Duty to the Immigrant " at the next meeting of the Chicago Women's Club.

Addams discusses the decrease of immigrant children's school attendance.

Addams discusses her experiences with immigrants in a talk to the Cook County Teachers' Association.

Addams describes the plight of child labor and education in Chicago, especially in the case of immigrants.

Addams writes to Sparks regarding her place on a local committee dedicated to foreigner's affairs

An excerpt of Addams' talk at "Settlement Sunday," held at the University of Chicago.

An excerpt of Addams' talk at "Settlement Sunday," held at the University of Chicago, discussing immigrants.

Excerpts from Addams' speech on educational opportunities wasted due to discrimination against immigrants.

Addams describes child labor and education in Chicago, especially among immigrants. This is a slightly modified version of "Child Labor and Pauperism," which had earlier appeared in the proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction. It is also the full version of the "Child and Pauperism" fragment.

Addams describes the situation of child labor and education in Chicago, especially in the case of immigrants.

Addams speaks to the North Broadway Social Settlement about how she runs Hull-House.

Addams discusses the role of education in the lives of working class children. This is an excerpt from her book Democracy and Social Ethics.

Addams argues that the Hull-House production of Sophocles' Ajax served to introduce the community of Greek immigrants to the rest of the city.

Addams encourages college women at Wellesley to use their educations to improve the lives of immigrants.

Addams discusses the value in the Hull House production of the Ajax in bringing attention to the Greek immigrants in the city.

Masaryk writes enthusiastically about Democracy and Social Ethics, and asks Addams to assist her "Slavic girl" Alice who is in Chicago with Miss McDowell.

Addams discusses the importance of manual training to the education of immigrant children, using examples from Hull-House and the labor museum.

Addams discusses the two methods by which Hull-House seeks to expose immigrant communities to greater society: by securing people who form friendships in the community and by providing self-expression to the immigrants.

Addams delivered this commencement address at the University of Chicago on December 20, 1904, the first woman to be a commencement speaker at the college.

Addams spoke about the issues of education and immigration, arguing that Americans need to open their minds to the experiences of immigrants, and that play is an important component of education,

Addams discusses the plight of child labor and immigration in a speech to the Chautauqua.

Addams speaks to the Chicago Normal School about the relationship between immigrant parents and their school-aged children.

An excerpt of Addams' discussion on settlement houses and the role of women's clubs.

Addams delivered this address at the Illinois Conference on Charities on October 24, 1905, discussing the lack of interest in learning about recent immigrants and working with them.

Addams argues that immigrants needs to be dispersed throughout the country to be successful.

Addams discusses how child labor laws in Illinois have impacted children's access to education and the dangers of weakening it. This is a reprint of a speech given on December 16, 1905 at the Annual Meeting of the National Child Labor Committee

Addams discusses the history of suffrage and argues that women in modern, urban societies need the vote.

A published version of a speech Addams delivered in February 1905, it is a discussion of the benefits of elective school boards, touching on practical education in public schools.

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