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Zona Gale to Jane Addams, September 1923

Gale thanks Addams for her kinds words on the death of her mother.

Death Health Onsite Woman Suffrage

Zangwill, Israel (1864-1926)

England Journalism Literature Peace Woman Suffrage

Young Women's Suffrage Association

Woman Suffrage

Youmans, Theodora W. (1863-1932)

Journalism Legislation Politics Woman Suffrage

World's General Welfare Association

Peace Religion Socialism Woman Suffrage

Woolley, Mary Emma (1863-1947)

Education Peace Woman Suffrage

Women’s Social and Political Union

England Woman Suffrage

Women's Political Union of New York

Woman Suffrage

Women's Political Union of New Jersey

Woman Suffrage

Women's Congress Honors Belgians, April 30, 1915

Addams discusses the events of the International Congress of Women, including presentations by Schwimmer, Augsburg, and Pethick-Lawrence.

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Women's Clubs and Public Progress, June 10, 1914

Addams talks about the benefits of woman suffrage for the entire country.

Lectures Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Women's Clubs and Public Policies, June 10, 1914

Speech given by Addams at the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, concerning the role of women's clubs in shaping public policies.

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Women's Club and Public Policies, June 10, 1914

Speech given by Addams at the Biennial Convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, concerning the role women's clubs has and can further have in shaping policies.

Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Women's Citizen League, Manila (Philippines)

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Women! Do Something!, [August 1912]

A call for women workers in the Progressive Party campaign and the suffrage movement.

Woman Suffrage

Women, War and Suffrage, November 6, 1915

Addams elaborates on how women can contribute to internationalism and peace after the war.

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Women Voters' Campaign Alliance

Woman Suffrage

Women Improving in Politics, March 7, 1926

Addams asserts that women have slowly been taking advantage of their enfranchisement and that prohibition has not proved to be a failure.

Prohibition Temperance Woman Suffrage Writings

Women and Public Housekeeping, March 1915

Addams, argues for woman suffrage claiming that municipal matters are directly related to their traditional responsibilities.

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Women and Democracy, October 4, 1912 (excerpts and summary)

Addams speaks on woman suffrage at a meeting in Potage, Wisconsin. She gave the same speech in Janesvile.

Lectures Woman Suffrage

Woman's Suffrage Association of Louisville

Clubs Woman Suffrage

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.

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Woman's Peace Party (WPP)

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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.

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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.

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Woman Suffrage Association of Dayton and Montgomery County

Woman Suffrage

Woman and the State, February 2-14, 1911

Addams gave this lecture at least two times; once at the February 2 meeting of the New York City Women's Political Union, and again on February 14 at the Boston School Voters' League. In the lecture, she discusses the philosophical relationship between women and the State and argues for the value of women in government, leading to the importance of woman suffrage. She may have also delivered a version of this lecture in Chicago on Dec. 8, 1910, to the Fortnightly Club.

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Woman and the Ballot: The Progressive View, October 6, 1912

Addams provides the Progressive take on Woman and the Ballot for a symposium in the Chicago Record-Herald. She discusses the process by which the government and politicians have taken up philanthropic work and argues that the Progressive Party is taking on many of the reforms philanthropists have been working on for years.

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