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Interview at the Progressive Party Convention, August 7, 1912

Addams talks to a New York Sun reporter about her decision to support Theodore Roosevelt and the new party in the presidential election.

Government Politics Progressive Woman Suffrage

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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

Statement on Youths and Drinking, March 3, 1925 (summary)

Addams notes that she is not alarmed about present day social conditions.

Lectures Prohibition Woman Suffrage Youth

Jane Addams to Lulu Smart Schweizer, January 17, 1927

Addams tells Schweizer that she cannot pick out one influence of women's voting but is certain they will show.

Politics Woman Suffrage Women

Impressions of Political Movements in the Orient, March 29, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams discusses child labor, the work of missionaries, and women's rights in China and India at the Woman's City Club

Child Labor China India Lectures Social Work Woman Suffrage

Address on the Non-Partisan League of Women Voters, September 7, 1923 (excerpt)

Addams spoke briefly alongside Chester Rowell to argue that women should use their votes to get the changes they want.

Hawaii Lectures Woman Suffrage

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, June 6, 1924

Lathrop seeks to talk to Addams about relations between the League of Women Voters and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Peace Requests Woman Suffrage

Speech on Woman Suffrage, March 9, 1914

Addams speaks on women's suffrage in Birmingham and declares that women's voting power would be used to combat child labor.

Child Labor Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Speech to the Shawnee County League of Women Voters, January 13, 1922 (excerpts)

Addams spoke about the roles women are playing in the peace movement to a breakfast meeting in Topeka. The article also details other activities during her trip.

Government Lectures Woman Suffrage Women

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

Speech to Washington Woman's City Club, November 19, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams urges women to use their vote to pressure the United States to loan relief funds to European countries.

Charity Foreign Policy Relief Efforts

The Necessity for Leadership in the Americanization Movement, June 19, 1920 (excerpt)

At the Biennial Federation of Women's Clubs, Addams discusses the problems of associating the right to vote with marital status of the husband, telling of experiences with immigrant women voting in Chicago.

Democracy Lectures Woman Suffrage