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Speech to the Chicago Business Woman's Club, November 19, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses woman's capacity for bad behavior and that women's philanthropy should be more active in areas like child labor.

Child Labor Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage

Settlement Work Lecture to Minnesota Federation of Women's Clubs, October 21, 1905 (excerpt)

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

Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement Woman Suffrage

The Modern City and the Municipal Franchise for Women, 1906

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

Government History Immigrants Juvenile Delinquency Labor Public Health Woman Suffrage

Traditional Housekeeping and Pure Food, February 17, 1906

At a joint meeting of the Consumers League and General Federation of Women's Clubs, Addams argues for the passage of the Heyburn Pure Food Bill in Congress.

Lectures Public Health Woman Suffrage

Municipal Suffrage, March 6, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Lake View Women's Club, March 6, 1906 (excerpt)

Addams gave an address to the Lake View Women's Club about her views on woman suffrage at the municipal level of government.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Jane Addams Declares Ballot for Woman Made Necessary by Changed Conditions, April 1, 1906

Addams offers reasons why Chicago should extend vote to women.

Crime Enforcement Politics Woman Suffrage

Pleads for Suffrage, April 17, 1906

Addams offers reasons in support of woman suffrage.

Education Labor Politics Woman Suffrage

Statement on Benjamin Barr Lindsey, October 20, 1906

Addams reports that when Lindsey was not nominated for re-election by either party, the women of Denver elected him as an independent.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, November 13, 1906

Thomas invites Addams to be the primary speaker for a College Equal Suffrage Committee that would bring Addams, Florence Kelley, Alice Park and Anna Howard Shaw to campuses to interest college women in forming suffrage associations.

Education Lectures Requests Woman Suffrage

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, January 23, 1907

Kelley praises Newer Ideals of Peace and makes plans to see Addams at Hull-House.

Friends Requests Woman Suffrage

Mary Thorn Lewis Gannett to Jane Addams, January 25, 1907

Gannett invites Addams to the National Women's Suffrage Association meeting in February.

Conferences Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Campaign for Municipal Suffrage, February 17, 1907

A newspaper report and excerpts from Addams' February 17 speech at the National Suffrage Convention, after the defeat of municipal suffrage for women in Chicago.

Conferences Politics Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Sophonisba P. Breckinridge, July 31, 1907

Addams notifies Breckinridge about a meeting of the Committee for the Extension of Municipal Suffrage for Chicago Women.

Politics Woman Suffrage

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 5, 1907

Thomas invites Addams to make a tour of East Coast women's colleges on the subject of equal suffrage.

Education Lectures Requests Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Address Before the Nineteenth Century Club, October 14, 1907 (excerpts)

Addams argues that woman suffrage might impact the plight of fallen women who are preyed upon by men.

Crime Enforcement Lectures Morality Prostitution Woman Suffrage

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 21, 1907

Thomas is disappointed that Addams cannot speak to various colleges in the fall, but wishes her to speak for two weeks during the spring semester.

Lectures Requests Travels Woman Suffrage

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, January 24, 1908

Thomas lays out a series of lectures for Addams during a visit to Pennsylvania and Boston in March 1908 and asks Addams to consider taking on an additional lecture.

Lectures Requests Woman Suffrage

The Social Value of the Immigrant, March 14, 1908 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the benefits of suffrage and how the vote will benefit immigrant women living in tenement houses. This lecture was made before the Ethical Culture Society at New Century Hall in Philadelphia on March 14, 1908 and published later.

Labor Lectures Woman Suffrage

Smith College Address, March 18, 1908 (extract)

Addams discusses traditional women's roles and how they correspond to a greater need for the involvement of woman in politics.

Child Welfare Lectures Legislation War Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Benefit of Suffrage for Working Women, March 19, 1908 (excerpt)

A summary of Addams' speech at Mount Holyoke College in support of woman suffrage as a means to foster social change.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Social Legislation and the Need for the Ballot for Women (excerpt), March 21, 1908

Addams discusses poor women in Chicago and their need for suffrage at a meeting of the College Equal Suffrage Society at Boston University on March 21. The excerpt was published later.

Housing Immigrants Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Relation of Women to Industry and Social Legislation (excerpt), March 22, 1908 (excerpt)

An excerpt from Addams' March 22 speech at Faneuil Hall to the Boston Equal Suffrage Association and the Women's Trade Union League on the changes in women's work brought about by factory work.

Education Germany Immigrants Labor Lectures Legislation Public Health Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

The Working Woman and the Ballot, April 1908

Addams gives arguments for woman's suffrage, stressing that working class need it to be able to control some aspects of their lives.

Gender Roles Labor Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Woman's Conscience and Social Amelioration, April 6, 1908

In this address, delivered for the Merrick Lectures, Addams speaks about the difficulty of assimilation into American life for immigrant women.

Child Labor Immigrants Industry Labor Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Rachel Hole Rice, April 28, 1908

Addams reports to Rice on their defeat in securing woman suffrage in Chicago and in Illinois.

Woman Suffrage

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, May 7, 1908

Thomas apologizes for the delay in responding and discusses the impact of Addams' lectures on the suffrage cause.

Finances Health Lectures Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams's Retort, June 7, 1908

Addams points out the hypocrisy in women who ridicule suffragists.

Lectures Woman Suffrage

Marion Tilden Burritt to Jane Addams, August 11, 1908

Burritt writes Addams for advice about drawing a connection between immigrant women and the suffrage movement and compliments her on Newer Ideals of Peace.

Immigrants Public Opinion Requests Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, September 26, 1908

Addams declines to sign a letter McCulloch sent her because it fails to strike the right tone. This letter is likely related to a statement McCulloch released on December 6 about Theodore Roosevelt's support for women's suffrage.

Politics Requests Woman Suffrage

Martha Carey Thomas to Jane Addams, October 05, 1908

Thomas asks Addams to reconsider participating in the Equal Suffrage Council of College Women meeting to be held in Buffalo, New York.

Education Requests Woman Suffrage

Ida Minerva Tarbell to Jane Addams, October 17, 1908

Tarbell writes Addams about her life since her visit to Hull-House.

Hull-House Praise Woman Suffrage Women's Rights Writing

Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, November 3, 1908

Addams forwards to McCulloch a letter with questions about suffrage and protective legislation.

Requests Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Martha Carey Thomas, November 20, 1908

Addams invites Thomas to speak about suffrage as part of a second push to secure municipal voting rights for women in Chicago.

Lectures Legislation Requests Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Brand Whitlock, December 9, 1908

Addams asks Whitlock to visit Hull-House and make a speech to a woman's suffrage group while in Chicago.

Hull-House Visits Lectures Requests Woman Suffrage

Brand Whitlock to Jane Addams, December 10, 1908

Whitlock declines Addams' request to lecture before a suffrage committee, but he accepts her offer to visit Hull-House.

Hull-House Visits Requests Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Blanche Booth, December 21, 1908

Addams asks Booth to thank Anita McCormick Blaine for her donation to the the Committee for the Extension of Municipal Suffrage for Chicago Women.

Charity Philanthropy Woman Suffrage

Anna Eliza Nicholes to Brand Whitlock, December 24, 1908

Nicholes invites Whitlock and his wife to a suffrage meeting and to stay at Hull-House when he is in Chicago.

Hull-House Visits Requests Woman Suffrage

Ella S. Stewart to Brand Whitlock, February 17, 1909

Ella Stewart sends Whitlock a check to cover his expenses for traveling to Chicago to speak with suffragists.

Visits Woman Suffrage

Miss Jane Addams Tells More about Women Foreigners, February 21, 1909

Addams argues that when women vote, they help to improve protection for children and to the general public.

Child Welfare Lectures Social Welfare Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams to Sarah Alice Addams Haldeman, February 23, 1909

Addams sends Haldeman a postcard regarding the suffrage movement.

Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Jane Addams Says that American Women are Slower, March 19, 1909

In terms of securing their rights, Addams argues that women in America lag behind their European counterparts.

Lectures Social Reform Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Woman Suffrage Is Needed in Chicago, March 24, 1909

Addams discusses the movement for municipal suffrage for women in Chicago, arguing that it will help improve schools, public health, and sanitation.

Education Public Health Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Woman's Suffrage and the Preservation of the Home, May 1909

Addams argues women's need for the vote so that they can perform their duties to family and the nation.

Hull-House Immigrants Public Health Woman Suffrage

Jane Addams' Message, August 25, 1914

A portion of Addams' speech from the Second Annual Peace Conference on May 4, 1909 about what women have done that have earned them suffrage.

Lectures Peace Woman Suffrage

American Women Slowest of English Speaking Women, May 6, 1909

Addams argues that American women are behind their European peers with regard to individual rights.

Immigrants Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Edward William Bok to Jane Addams, May 25, 1909

Bok congratulates Addams on her suffrage articles for the Ladies Home Journal.

Praise Woman Suffrage Writings

Jane Addams to James DeWitt Andrews, July 23, 1909

Addams apologizes for holding on to Andrews' article too long and praises him for its views on suffrage and protective legislation.

Labor Woman Suffrage Writing

Why Women Should Vote, January 1910

Addams argues for women to have the vote in order that they may continue to perform their duties to family and to home in the modern world, where responsibilities, like feeding their children and keeping them safe, are no long directly within their control.

Democracy Immigrants Woman Suffrage

Chicago Civic Club Talk, January 13, 1910 (excerpt)

Addams tells a story to illustrate the danger of looking at the struggle for women's rights through rose-colored glasses.

Crime Death Lectures Woman Suffrage

Eugenie M. Bacon to Jane Addams, March 7, 1910

Bacon praises Addams' book The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets and writes about the progressive activities in which the women of her town are engaged.

Books Praise Religion Temperance Woman Suffrage

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Municipal Suffrage, March 6, 1906 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Lake View Women's Club, March 6, 1906 (excerpt)

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