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Comment on Corporal Punishment, March 14, 1902

Addams responds to judges ordering parents to administer corporal punishment to juvenile delinquents. This was part of a longer new article.

Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Youth

Delinquent Children, May 31, 1902

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

Child Welfare Children Gambling Immigrants Poverty Youth

Earl Barnes to Jane Addams, August 24, 1902

Barnes writes to Addams about her book, Democracy and Social Ethics, and expresses some concerns about her ideas.

Books Democracy Labor Race Youth

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: The First Five Years at Hull-House (Second of Three Installments), April 1906

In the second article of a series, Addams reports on some of the activities accomplished at Hull-House from 1889-1894.

Child Labor Children Hull-House Immigrants Labor Settlement Movement Settlements Social Work Youth

Comments at the Commercial Club Dinner, April 28, 1906 (excerpts)

Addams and Edward Dunne speak on Chicago's capacity to fund recreation and park spaces.

Juvenile Delinquency Lectures Philanthropy Recreation Youth

Statement on a Conference Held at Hull-House, June 9, 1906

Statement on a conference held at Hull-House.

Courts Crime Enforcement Law Youth

Jane Addams to Benjamin Barr Lindsey, June 28th, 1906

Addams writes to Lindsey expressing concern at the body of a newspaper clipping.

Finances Politics Youth

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, January 11, 1907

Bowen writes Addams of her pleasure to have donated the funds to build the new Boys' Club Building at the Hull-House settlement, and about the dedication ceremony scheduled for Jan. 12, 1907.

Charity Friends Youth

Recreation for Girls In Cities, 1908

Addams argues for the value of recreation in girls' lives.

Recreation Youth

The True Ideal of a Public School System That Aims to Benefit All, January 25, 1908

Addams expands on the cultural values taught in industrial education and training.

Business Education Industry Lectures Youth

Some Reflections on the Failure of the Modern City to Provide Recreation for Young Girls, December 5, 1908

Addams advocates for the value of organized recreation for working class women.

Gambling Morality Recreation Youth

Alfred Holden Byles to Jane Addams, January 18, 1909

Byles writes to Addams to ask for information about the Juvenile Improvement Association.

Juvenile Delinquency Requests Youth

The Reaction of Moral Instructions upon Social Reform, April 3, 1909

Addams describes the current moral situation of American youth as a result of the current education and religious situations. This speech was also given before the Chicago Sinai congregation.

Education Morality Religion Youth

The Spirit of Youth, May 30, 1909

Addams discusses the problem of juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile Delinquency Youth

The Bad Boy of the Street, October 1909

Addams argues that young boys need an outlet for their pent-up energy and adventurousness, and that without an outlet, like a playground, they are susceptible to petty crime.

Gender Roles Juvenile Delinquency Recreation Youth

When Youth Seeks a Mate, November 1909

Addams discusses the problems that modern youth face when seeking love.

Love Sex Hygiene Youth

Edgar Gardner Murphy to Jane Addams, November 7, 1909

Murphy writes Addams to tell her that her new book is an inspiration to him and shares some of his own ideas about children and the treatment of African Americans in the North and South.

African-Americans Children Youth

Jane Addams to Jonathan Prentiss Dolliver, November 25, 1909

Addams urges Senator Dolliver to support a bill in Congress to create the Federal Children’s Bureau.

Courts Legislation Politics Youth

Louis O. Lehman to Jane Addams, January 19, 1910

Lehman praises Addams' The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets and asks her if the commercialization of recreation is at the heart of the problem.

Books Praise Religion Requests Youth

Princess Alice to Jane Addams, July 10, 1910

Princess Alice writes Addams looking for aid for homeless British women in Paris.

Charities England Requests Social Welfare Youth

Speech to Chicago Sunday Evening Club (Excerpt), October 9, 1910

Newspaper report of Addams' speech on the need for entertainments among the poor in Chicago. The speech was given for the Sunday Evening Club.

Crime Lectures Poverty Recreation Youth

Religious Education and Contemporary Social Conditions, February 16, 1911

In this draft, Addams offers a strong indictment against old fashioned religious education and argues that the church, in order to encourage modern youth to see the validity of religion, must engage the realities and distractions of urban life.

Education Labor Religion Youth

Some of the Immediate Needs of Chicago March 20, 1911 (excerpts)

Addams speaks at the Chicago Credit Men's Association about the dangers of unregulated dance halls for Chicago's youth.

Juvenile Delinquency Lectures Morality Recreation Youth

Let Children Play, Says Jane Addams, March 25, 1911

Addams argues that if children have a chance to play outside they are less likely to become criminals.

Crime Lectures Recreation Youth

Address to Open the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, May 11, 1911

Addams' brief opening address at the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit.

Child Welfare Education Lectures Youth

The Social Situation: Religious Education and Contemporary Social Conditions, June 1911

Addams offers a strong indictment against old fashioned religious education and argues that the church, in order to encourage modern youth to see the validity of religion, must engage the realities and distractions of urban life.

Education Religion Social Welfare Youth

John K. Reed to Jane Addams, November 27, 1911

Reed praises Addams for her new series of articles in McClure's Magazine and vents his frustration with the business class and their lack of care for the working class.

Business Politics Poverty White Slavery Youth

Rose E. Livingston to Jane Addams, 1912

Livingston writes Addams about her article on white slavery, because she herself is working in the Chinatown area of New York City working to help women get out of prostitution.

Child Welfare Praise Religion White Slavery Youth

George Ashley Lewis to Jane Addams, April 30, 1912

Lewis criticizes a source Addams used for one of her articles in McClure's Magazines.

Criticism Writings Youth

Rebecca J. Lose to Jane Addams, May 3, 1912

Lose writes Addams with ideas about how the minimum wage and moral teaching can save women from a life of prostitution.

Child Labor Child Welfare Education Legislation Social Work Youth

Foreword to Young Working Girls, 1913

Addams provides the foreword for a report on the status of working girls, made by the National Federation of Settlements.

Labor Settlements Youth

Recreation -- A Function of City Government, July 1, 1913 (fragment)

Addams discusses the role of a lack of recreation for youth as a source of political corruption and argues for the establishment of regulated public spaces to encourage cooperative and positive relationships.

Children Education Politics Recreation Youth

The Juvenile Adult Offender, July 22, 1913

Addams explains how educational background, economic situations, and family predicaments have an impact on juvenile crime; and she argues for special treatment of the "juvenile adult." The article was published in October 1913.

Courts Crime Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Prisons Youth

Miss Addams, August 1913

Using her home Nineteenth Ward in Chicago as an example, Addams explains how political corruption is born in the corruption of youth and argues for the establishment of regulated public spaces to encourage cooperative and positive relationships instead. This is the eighth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's role to affect change.

Children Education Politics Recreation Youth

Jane Addams: The Juvenile Adult Offender, October 1913

Addams explains how educational background, economic situations, and family predicaments have an impact on juvenile crime; and she argues for special treatment of the "juvenile adult." This is the tenth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a women's roles in affecting change.

Crime Crime Enforcement Juvenile Delinquency Prisons Youth

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