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Jane Addams to Anne Henrietta Martin, May 31, 1927

Addams thanks Martin for her help in advocating for the pardon of Charlotte Anita Whitney within the League.

Anti-radicalism Onsite Peace Requests

Commission Seeking Remedy For Eradicating The Causes Which Make Social Outcasts, May 31, 1927 [fragment]

Article discusses the creation of an American Crime Study commission to investigate the causes and prevention of crime.

Conferences Crime Lectures

Killian Kotty to Jane Addams, August 1, 1927

Kotty tells Addams that reformers are the cause of moral laxity and that bringing back saloons and red light districts will improve morality.

Crime Enforcement Criticism Morality Youth

Elizabeth Coit Gilman to Jane Addams, April 19, 1927

Gilman asks Addams to intervene to prevent the execution of Nicolo Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Crime Enforcement Government Requests Social Justice

Jane Addams to Alvan Tufts Fuller, April 12, 1927

Addams asks Fuller to set aside the death penalty for Sacco and Vanzetti because the trial was unfair.

Crime Enforcement Requests

Statement on the Bobby Franks Case, July 28, 1924 (excerpt)

Mary Field reports on her interview of Addams with regard to the criminal case against Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb for the murder of fourteen year old Bobby Franks in Chicago. Other comments were made by Carl Sandburg and Elllsworth Faris.

Crime

We Called Him Brother, November 1, 1924

Armes describes Russian refugee Jan Pouren's efforts to enter and remain in the United States.

Crime Enforcement Immigrants Immigration Prisons Russia Writings

Prohibition, March 2, 1928

Addams discusses the impact of prohibition on urban communities and notes a gradual increase in availability of alcohol due to home-based distilling. Addams gave this talk to the Kalamazoo and Battle Creek Social Workers' Clubs at the Y.W.C.A. building.

Chicago Child Welfare Crime Prohibition

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 16, 1927

Addams asks Borah to intercede to prevent the executions of Sacco and Vanzetti.

Anti-radicalism Crime Enforcement Immigrants International Affairs Law Requests

Jane Addams to William Edgar Borah, August 16, 1927

Addams condemns the future execution of Sacco and Vanzetti, claiming it will harm relations between the US and its immigrant inhabitants.

Immigrants International Affairs Law Onsite Requests

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

Jane Adams to Emily Caroline Fitten MacDougald, ca. March 25, 1914

Addams asks MacDougald to organize the women of Atlanta to seek a reprieve for Leo Frank in order to review the evidence.

Crime Requests Social Justice

Gifford Pinchot to Jane Addams, January 2, 1924

Pinchot tells Addams that he cannot pardon prisoners under Pennsylvania law and advises that the American Civil Liberties Union follow the procedures.

Anti-radicalism Civil liberties Government Prisons Requests

Unwed Mothers-Modern Youth, March 24, 1927

Addams discusses the murder of unwed mother Rosa Stoble, and argues for love and sympathy rather than punishment and stigma. This article was syndicated and published in many newspapers in March and April.

Child Welfare Crime Women