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Also known as Montgomery, Olin

Also known as Price, Victoria

Baber tells Addams of her travels in Africa and race relations there.

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

Rice tells Addams that she missed seeing her, and reflects on her time at Hull-House.

Ickes tells Addams that he disagrees with her views on Herbert Hoover.

Kitchell asks Addams her thoughts on his call for an anthem for peace.

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

White asks Belden not to create a segregated library school at Hampton Institute because African-Americans have been able to enroll in existing schools without trouble.

White seeks Addams's support in opposition to the American Library Association opposing the creation of a segregated school at Hampton Institute.

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

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

Addams praises Helen Kingsbury Castle Mead's friendship and ideals.

Addams discusses how the recent immigrant quota laws have created hardships for immigrants and the American economy, and have created false ideas about immigrants and social problems.

Addams examines Mayor William Hale Thompson's motives when he censors British books and influences.

Also known as The Pageant of Emancipation, August 1929

Addams discusses the process of women's rights on a global scale, praising achievements in government, medicine, art, education, and social work. This talk was given at the University of Chicago chapel and later published.

Also known as The Pageant of Emancipation, April 10, 1929

Addams discusses the progress of women and their importance to society in the western world and in Asia at a regional meeting of the Young Woman's Christian Association.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

Addams and Kittredge formally request the United States to pressure France to remove black troops for occupied Germany.

Carlson tells the Swedish professors that he will publicize their complaints about the behavior of French African troops in occupied Germany, but he doubts that Americans will be able to impact French behavior.

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

Carlson sends Addams an appeal from Swedish professors regarding French colonial troops in Germany.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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.
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