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Statement on Modern Women, January 19, 1925

Addams tells a reporter about her views on criticisms of modern women.

Morality Women's Rights Youth

Interview with Baltimore Evening Sun, April 21, 1922

Addams discusses the impact of women's fashion, and jazz on morality.

Fashion Morality Music

Interview on Causes of Juvenile Delinquency, January 28, 1922

Addams argues that jazz music causes immoral dancing and leads to juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile Delinquency Morality Music Youth

Rector, Julia (?-?)

Crime Enforcement Dance Morality

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

Statement on Moral Conditions in Europe, September 30, 1921

Addams argues that Europe's moral slump is due to wartime problems.

Europe Food Shortages Morality World War I

Comment on Modern Girls and Materialism, ca. September 1921

An anecdote shared by Addams about judging by looks.

Humor Morality Women

Boston Speech, ca. April 30, 1921 (excerpts)

Addams speaks in Boston about the way to solve the problem of unmarried mothers and delinquent girls and urges the lifting of the Russian blockade.

Foreign Policy Ireland Japan Lectures Morality Soviet Union

Statement on Blue Laws, November 29, 1920

Addams, Stedman and Mathes oppose the establishment of Eastern "blue laws" in the Midwest.

Morality

Statement on Theater Censorship, May 2, 1907 (excerpt)

Addams supports the idea of regulating theaters aimed at juvenile audiences, but not banning children from attending.

Censorship Morality Police Social Work Theater

The Black Scourge in Europe, April 10, 1920

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

Africa Europe France Germany Morality Racism World War I

Frederick Pollock and Francis Younghusband to Jane Addams, June, 1921

Pollock and Younghusband invite Addams to the International Moral Education Congress.

Conferences Education Morality Requests

Touching the Human Side of Things, May 1921

A clipping that discusses the work of the Illinois Vigilance Association.

Illinois Morality Social Purity

A Program During War Time, April 1917

The Woman's Peace Party outlines steps that peace activists can take once war is declared.

Civil Rights Conscription Free Speech Morality Patriotism Peace Social Welfare World War I

International Moral Education Society

Education Morality

The Colored Preacher On The Wiles of Satan, ca. October 1918

A poem warning about the temptation to avoid work in the summer months.

Morality Poetry Religion

Thoughts on the Comic Valentine, February 2, 1902

Addams dismisses comic valentines as coarse at a meeting of the Ravenswood Woman's Club.

Child Welfare Holidays Morality

Statement on New Year's Resolutions, January 1, 1902

Addams' gives a brief quote on New Years resolutions.

Morality Writings

Anna Marcet Haldeman-Julius to Jane Addams, July 16, 1918

Marcet explains the draft appeals made by her husband, Manuel, and the injustice she feels in the draft system.

Family Military Morality

Committee of Fifteen (Chicago)

Morality Prostitution Social Purity

Kemmie B. Fidler Slade to Jane Addams, May 1, 1917

Slade praises Addams' her recent comments on Germany's food scarcity.

Food Shortages Germany Morality Peace World War I

Elizabeth Sutherland Young to Jane Addams, December 13, 1916

Young warns Addams about the effects of military training on young men.

Military Morality Preparedness Temperance

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, February 9, 1917

Kellogg summarizes an American Union Against Militarism meeting during which members grappled with ideas about war.

Germany Meetings Morality Religion World War I

The United States on Trial, c. February 6, 1917

Jenkin Lloyd Jones sermonizes against the war, asking people if they would choose Caesar over Christ.

Military Morality Peace Religion War

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The Church and the Social Evil, 1912

A reprint of Addams' speech to the Congress of Men and the Religion Forward Movement chastises the church for rejection aid to "fallen" women and asks for a return to the teachings of Jesus, who opened his heart to all sinners.

Crime Gambling Lectures Morality Prostitution Religion

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