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1915 Carnegie Hall Speech. Addams Returns to the United States. Jane Addams and other members of the Women’s Peace Party return to the United States from the women’s peace conference in The Hague, Netherlands, and the subsequent tour of European capitals, to promote their peace plan.
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- 1915 Tour of The European Capitals
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As a member and eventual vice president of the National Women’s Suffrage Association, Jane Addams (1860–1935) often spoke and wrote in favor of granting women the right to vote. The piece included here, “Why Women Should Vote,” is noteworthy for several reasons.
Jane Addams's Speech. It is always very difficult for me to make a speech on woman suffrage. I always feel that it belongs to the last century rather than this. The men who foresaw that the Negroes would [page 2] need the protection of the ballot ought to have given it to the women.
Oct 25, 2018 · Speech on Woman Suffrage – June 17, 1911. Jane Addams. June 17, 1911. Print friendly. Speeches. It is always very difficult for me to make a speech on woman suffrage. I always feel that it belongs to the last century rather than this. The men who foresaw that the Negroes would need the protection of the ballot ought to have given it to the ...
No longer just a keeper of Hull-House, the improver of the Nineteenth Ward, Jane Addams spoke out on the leading issues of the day—condemning the war in the Philippines, lynchings in the South, and race riots in Atlanta and Springfield. In addition to her role as an activist, she became a sociologist and a scholar.
Addams wrote articles and gave speeches worldwide promoting peace and she helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, serving as its president until 1929 and honorary president until her death in 1935.
Addams wrote articles and gave speeches worldwide promoting peace and she helped found the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, serving as its president until 1929 and honorary president until her death in 1935.
