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Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge, and Amelia Sears to Herbert Clark Hoover, May 17, 1927

Addams asks Hoover whether the government plans to employ African-American social workers to ally rumors of race discrimination.

Government Racism Requests Social Work

Minorities and Peace, May 17, 1926

Widegren outlines a course about how to work with minorities on peace for the Summer School.

Education Ethnic Groups Peace Racism

James Edgar Gregg to Jane Addams, September 23, 1925

Gregg tells Addams why he believes that the Hampton University Library School will not set back the cause of desegregation in the library profession.

African-Americans Education Library Racism

Interview in Rangoon, ca. March 1923

Addams tells a reporter that India is failing to deal with its racial and religious problems.

India Racism Religion

New Factors in American Japanese Relations and a Constructive Proposal, January 21, 1925

Gulick discusses Japanese-American foreign relations and how they have been impacted by the Great Kanto Earthquake and the anti-Japanese immigration laws passed in the United States.

Courts Eugenics Foreign Policy Government Immigration International Affairs Japan Journalism Law Racism United States

Ku Klux Klan

Racism

Statement on Birth of a Nation, March 13, 1915

Addams criticizes the film Birth of a Nation as unjust and untrue and designed to foster race prejudice.

African-Americans Film Racism Social Justice

Matthew A. N. Shaw to Jane Addams and Oswald Garrison Villard, November 24, 1920 (summary)

Shaw asks Addams and Villard to investigate Black lynchings once their inquiry on Ireland is completed.

African-Americans Racism Requests

The Black Scourge in Europe, April 10, 1920

Morel claims that France is stationing black soldiers in Germany to rape and terrorize German women.

Africa Europe France Germany Morality Racism World War I

Hunton, Addie Waits (1866-1943)

African-Americans Civil Rights Clubs Peace Racism Social Justice Woman Suffrage

Chicago Race Riot (1919)

Crime Racism

Testimony Before the Committee on Military Affairs, House of Representatives, January 11, 1921

Brown testifies on behalf of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's United States Section for a dramatic reduction in American military spending and and for universal disarmament.

Conscription Disarmament Finances Government Japan Mexico Military Peace Preparedness Racism Taxes World War I

Emily Greene Balch to Mary White Ovington, March 16, 1921

Balch sends Ovington word of efforts of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom regarding issues surrounding Black troops from colonized countries.

League of Nations Military Race Racism

John Berg, Johan Erik Johansson, John Sjöqvist, and Carl Gustaf Santesson to Anton J. Carlson, December 24, 1920

Berg and colleagues ask Carlson to sway public opinion against Black French Colonial soldiers in Germany.

France Germany Racism Requests

Edmund Von Mach to Jane Addams, February 14, 1921

Von Mach invites Addams to speak at a meeting opposing the French colonial troops in the German Rhine.

Germany Lectures Racism Requests

Herbert Lockwood Willett to Bainbridge Colby, November 3, 1920

Willett demands that Colby investigate alleged atrocities committed by black French troops in Germany.

Foreign Policy France Germany International Affairs Military Racism

Gardiner Howland Shaw to Herbert Lockwood Willett, November 13, 1920

Shaw tells Willett that the stories of Black French troops in Germany have been greatly exaggerated.

Foreign Policy France Germany International Affairs Military Racism

Lena Boyce Mays Mathes to Jane Addams, November 16, 1920

Mathes asks Addams to investigate the State Department's dismissal of the stories of French Black troop atrocities in Germany.

France Germany Government International Affairs Racism Religion United States

Emma Boos-Jegher to Jane Addams, January 14, 1921

Boos-Jegher asks Addams to help remove French African troops from occupied Germany.

Germany Military Peace Racism Requests World War I

Anonymous to Jane Addams, September 29, 1920 (fragment)

The author asks Addams for help getting American women to protest atrocities in Wiesbaden, Germany.

Germany Racism World War I

May Ida Gund to Jane Addams, June 24, 1920

Gund asks Addams to have the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom protest France's stationing of black soldiers in the Rhine due to reports of cruelty.

France Germany Peace Racism Requests World War I

Jane Addams to Emma T. Martin, August 9, 1917

Addams sends Martin a telegram denying Mildred Rutherford's claims about her; the telegram is published in the Atlanta Journal.

Criticism Racism White Slavery Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Mary Church Terrell, March 29, 1921

Addams agrees with Terrell's objection to calling for the removal of black French troops in Germany and invites her to attend the local meeting where the issue is on the agenda.

African-Americans Military Onsite Racism