Jane Addams on Race, Civil Rights and Racial Justice
Hull House served an interracial community, and Jane Addams, its founder, became involved in civil rights and racial equality. Here you'll find resources about her ideas about race and racial justice.
Reformer Jane Addams Critiques The Birth of a Nation
The Birth of a Nation, opening in March, 1915, was a glorification of the Ku Klux Klan. Little white opposition developed, and even white reformer Jane Addams, interviewed in this article by the New York Post, managed to accept some of the premises of the film, even while calling it a "pernicious caricature of the Negro race."
Jane Addams and Race
Some notes on the connection of Jane Addams to civil rights and race issues.
Jane Addams and the NAACP
This history of the NAACP includes mention of Jane Addams' involvement.