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MIGHT NOT REMEMBER HER AS AN AUTHOR. SO KATHERINE JOSLIN WHY DID YOU CHOOSE TO WRITE ABOUT JANE ADDAMS AS WRITER? >> WELL, I'M -- I GOT MY Ph.D IN LITERATURE...
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IT COMES FROM INFORMATION FROM HER LETTERS FROM HER JOURNALS, AND WHAT I NOTE ARE THESE 10 STRONG BOOKS. AND THREE OTHER BOOKS THAT SHE COLLABORATED...
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MADE FROM A YOUNG PROSPEROUS EDUCATED WOMAN
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LIVING AN ISOLATED LIFE IN NORTHERN ILLINOIS, TO AN URBAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST CLEARLY IS A STORY ABOUT HER DISCOVERING HER ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN DEMOCRACY...
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IT WOULD GIVE HER MATERIAL FOR HER BOOKS? >> DID SHE GO OUT AND LIVE THAT TOUGH LIFE WOULD SHE COULD WRITE ABOUT IT? THAT'S INTERESTING. MY BOOK YOU...
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AS LOUISE KNIGHT'S BOOK SO GRACEFULLY TELLS US THEN THERE WERE AND ALL THE TIME AS SHE WAS DOING THAT ACTIVE WORK, PART OF IT WAS SHE WAS GIVING SPEECHES...
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LIFE THIS WAY. I THINK THE FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED WAS THAT SHE -- SHE GOT A COLLEGE EDUCATION, WHICH DEEPLY ORIENTED HER TOWARDS LARGE IDEAS. AND...
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THROUGHOUT HER LIFE THAT SHE THOUGHT OF IDEAS AS THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS. THINGS THAT WERE POWERFUL ENOUGH TO CAUSE HER TO CHANGE HER LIFE AND IN...
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WHAT HAPPENED DURING THAT PERIOD? >> YOU MEAN THE 1880s. >> DO YOU WANT 1920s. >> DURING HER 20s. >> HER 20s. >> DURING 240UR'S. >> HER 20s. >> I WOULD...
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LETTERS IS LIKE READING THE BEST NOVEL
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YOU COULD EVER READ
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BECAUSE ALL THE VOICES IN THEM ARE
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REAL VOICES. AND SHE HAD A
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STRONG
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HE EPISTALARY FRIENDSHIPS THROUGHOUT HER LIFE BUT THAT EARLY PERIOD YOU CAN SEE HER WEIGHING THE CHANCES, AS LOUISE TALKS ABOUT FOR -- WOMEN OF YOU...
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EVER FIND WHERE IN TOLSTOY? SHE SAID IT CAME FROM TOLSTOY SHE SAID A LOT OF THINGS THAT DIDN'T ACTUALLY OCCUR. >> IT DID COME -- I NEVER NOUND FOUND...
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IT SHE USES IT IN HER FAMOUS MEMOIR 20 YEARS OF THE HOLE HOUSE CALLS THE CHAPTER ABOUT HER TROUBLED 20s THE SNARE OF PREPARATION, SHE WAS A SOMEONE...
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THAT YOU SHOULD NEVER DO SOMETHING UNLESS YOU ABSOLUTELY KNEW HOW TO
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DO IT WELL. BEFORE YOU STARTED IAND I CAN RELATE TO THAT. SO I THINK THAT THAT WAS THAT WAS MORE OR LESS WHAT SHE MEANT THAT SHE HAD SHE PROCRASTINATEED...
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REFLECT AND LISTEN TO WHAT AEVG ELSE HAS TO SAY -- EVERYBODY ELSE HAS TO SAY JANE ADDAMS CAME TO SEE MUCH MORE IMPORTANT IN LIFE TO USE THOSE VITAL JUICES,...
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| 00:10:46 |
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ABOUT TOYNBEE HALL FIRST SETTLEMENT HOUSE IN THE WORLD THIS NEW IDEA ANGLICAN MINISTER AND HIS WIFE HAD OPENED UP PLACE FOR YOUNG PLEN TO LIVE IN...
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A LOT OF KLUDGE EDUCATION KNEW HUMANITIES, WORKING IN THE CITY BUT FREE IN THE EVENING AND WEEKENDS TO GET TO KNOW THE PEOPLE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD WHO...
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WELL, AS SHE STARTED DEVELOPING THE IDEA OF THE HOUSE TRYING HAVE TOFYING OUT HOW TO BLEND INTO THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY THE HAD COME WITH LAST IDEAS...
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SHE HAD TO OUT TO OTHER PEOPLE WHAT SHE BEGAN TO LEARN WAS HOW MUCH SHE COULD GET BACK FROM THE PEOPLE AROUND HERE. AND SHE -- HER, SHE
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STARTED GIVING SPEECHES SHE GAVE A COUPLE OF SPEECHES IN THE 1890s, ABOUT SUBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE REASONS FOR SOCIAL SETTLEMENTS, AND SHE WENT -- SHE WAS...
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THE PEOPLE SHE FOUND WHAT DO YOU THINK THOSE PEOPLE WOULD HAVE SAID ABOUT HER HAD THEY BEEN WRITING ABOUT HER? >> WELL THEY DID WRITE ABOUT HER, ACTUALLY....
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AND IS THE SPORTS, YOU
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KNOW, JUST THIS GREAT PLACE, AND SO CHILDREN FLOCKED THERE, AND COUPLE OF THEM
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DID WRITE ABOUT IT. THE MOST FAMOUS ONE IS BY HILDA POLICHK HER DAUGHTER WONDERFULLY EDITED THE MANUSCRIPT THAT HER MOTHER HAD WRITTEN BEFORE SHE DIED....
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QUOTATIONS THAT COME UP IN THE SOURCES THAT ARE VERY WONDERFUL, THERE'S STATEMENTS SOME THEM MADE AFTER HE SHE DIED WHERE PEOPLE WERE INTERUG VIEWING...
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SPEAKING NONFICTION. HOW WOULD YOU DESCRIBE IT? >> WELL THAT'S THAT TO ME HAS BEEN THE GLORY OF MY STUDY FIGURING OUT WHAT DO WITH THIS WRITING. IT...
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| 00:18:12 |
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MORE SCHOLARLY BOOK DIDN'T SELL WELL SCHOLARLY BOOKS DON'T SELL WELL SOME 6 US MAY KNOW. BUT SHE WANTED A STYLE THAT WOULD APPEAL TO WHAT VIRGINIA WOLF...
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| 00:19:45 |
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WITHIN RECENT DECK BAIDS THE URBAN POOR SCHOLARS GO INTO POOR NEIGHBORHOODS IN NEW YORK CITY OTHER PLACES AND WRITE ABOUT THE PEOPLE THEY
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ENCOUNTER THERE. WHOSE LIVES ARE TRAPPED KIND
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OF A DEAD-END JOB OR EVEN ON WELFARE, AND THEY QUOTE THESE PEOPLE AND PORTRAY THEIR LIVES, AND DO YOU SEE WHAT YOU WERE JUST TALKING ABOUT HER QUOTING...
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DO I SEE HER AS PRECURSOR OF WHAT PEOPLE DO NOW? THE DIFFERENCE NOW IS THAT -- THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT SHE WAS DOING THEN AND WHAT I THINK PEOPLE...
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KNOW WAS IMPORTANT WORK SHE
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UNDERSTAND, THAT ON THE OTHER HAND, HER FIRST RELATIONSHIP TO THE PEOPLE IN HER NEIGHBORHOOD WAS HUMAN. AND SHE WAS AWARE THAT YOU KNOW IF YOU COME...
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| 00:22:43 |
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SECONDLY,
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| 00:22:46 |
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YOU SAID SHE MET TOLSTOY? >> YES. >> WHAT IN WHAT DOES SHE THINK WHAT DOES SHE THINK ABOUT
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TOLSTOY'S AN
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ARC SKIMS APPARENTLY SHE WAS
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NOT AN ANARCHIST SHE DEVELOPED AND
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TURNED THEM OVER TO THE CITY WHEREAS TOLSTOY WAS WITH THE STATE WHAT DID
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SHE THINK ABOUT -- >> ACTUALLY, I THINK THE TOLSTOY
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QUESTION IS BIG ENOUGH FOR BOTH I HAVE
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LET'S START HERE. BOTH OF YOU, LET'S START HERE. >> SHE WROTE TO MEET HIM TOLSTOY WAS SUCH A -- COLORFUL FIGURE. AND IN HER SHE WENT TO VISIT HIM, AND...
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HIS HOME AND HE QUIZZED HER ABOUT HER LIFE IN CHICAGO AND ACCUSED HER BEING ABSENTEE LANDLORD,
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AND PULLED OUT SLEEVE OF HER DRESS TOLD HER SHE THOUGHT TOO MUCH ABOUT -- MIDDLE CLASS OR UPPER-MIDDLE CLASS LIFE AND GARMENT SO SHE WAS SHE WAS TAKEN...
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POINT YOU ARE MAKING I DON'T THINK SHE SO MUCH DISTORTED WHAT TOLSTOY SAID AS SHE FOCUSED IN ON PARTS SHE
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AGREED WITH DIDN'T ATTEND TO THE PARTS SHA SHE DIDN'T AGREED --
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AGREE WITH SHE NEVER COMMENTS ON HIS VIEWS ON
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ANARCHY OR AN ARE A KISSISM THAT WASN'T PART SHE WANTED TO LEARN FROM. AND I THINK SHE WAS VERY CLEAR PROBABLY, FROM THE VERY BEGINNING YOU CAN FIND...
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WITH 1932 AND GOING BACK. I THINK THE LIST IS SURPRISING. >> WELL, FRIENDS WERE TALKING TO ME ABOUT JANE ADDAMS I WAS TALKING ABOUT IDEAS THEY SAID...
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AND SHE OF COURSE AT THE BULL MOOSE CONVENTION SHE IS FIRST AMERICAN WOMAN OH, TO HAVE A MAJOR TO PLAY A MAJOR PART AT NATIONAL CONVENTION, SHE SECONDS...
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| 00:28:09 |
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THEM, AND ALWAYS FIGURES OUT A
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WAY TO BRING OUT THE BEST IN EVEN THE MOST DIFFICULT
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TIMES. >> SHOULD PERHAPS SAY HER FATHER WAS REPUBLICAN SO THAT WAS SORT OF LIKE THE ORIGIN OF HER LOYALTY, I THINK AND HE WAS ACTUALLY A REPUBLICAN AT...
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BECAUSE IN A SENSE, THE REPUBLICANS AT LEAST IN THAT ERA WERE CONSIDERED THE IMPORTANT PART OF THE PROGRESSIVE MOVEMENT AND IF JANE ADDAMS WASN'T A PROGSIVE,...
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| 00:28:55 |
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IT
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| 00:28:56 |
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20 YEARS WHERE SHE FIRST STARTS LOOKING AT THE PEOPLE IN THE STREET AND TELLING THEIR STORIES? >> DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL ETHICS, 1902. >> OKAY. >> AND...
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| 00:29:24 |
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DRESSING EVEN CROSS-DRESSING,
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SOMETIMES SHE
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IS MOST MAGNIFICENT WHEN IN MALE DRESS ACTUALLY. >> I HAVE A QUESTION FOR LOUISE IN YOUR BOOK CAN YOU SAY BIT ABOUT PROGRESSION FROM THE NOTION OF NOBLIS...
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| 00:29:52 |
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FELT THAT I MADE IN THE BOOK, BECAUSE ADDAMS, YOU KNOW ALL OF HER BOOKS, WRITTEN STARTING IN 1902. AND OF COURSE 20 YEARS WRITTEN IN 1910, WE MAINLY...
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| 00:30:09 |
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SHE'S FULLY DEVELOPED BY THEN, AS THEETHIST EGALITARIAN PRAGMATICS ETHICIST SHE BECAME I HAD NOT REALIZED EXTENT TO WHICH IT WILL IS HARD TO TRY TO...
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| 00:33:25 |
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SPELL? ALLAN DAVIS DID EVERYONE'S SERVICE BY TAKING JANE ADDAMS SERIOUSLY IN THE 70s, I SEE THIS ABOUT WRITERS FIRST OF ALL, MOST WRITERS -- I SAY...
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DIE. THAT IS SIMPLY HOW THE INDUSTRY WORKS. BUT SO JANE ADDAMS I DID -- DID FALL ON A TIME WHEN SHE WAS NOT CONSIDERED IT WAS ALAN DAVIS' BOOK IN...
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| 00:35:33 |
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NOT THRIVING IN FACT IT WAS DEFUNCT, THEN IN THE LATE 60s EARLY 70s THREE WROX BOOK CAME OUT ABOUT HER DAVIS' MOST TRULY BY GRAPHIAL THAT WAS IN REES...
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| 00:37:38 |
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ADDAMS REPUTATION, AND SO THERE IS AN 82 COLLECTION OF JANE ADDAMS PAPERS PROJECT THAT MANY PEOPLE WORKED ON OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME, AND THEY GO...
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| 00:38:35 |
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BUS, I SAID WELL, WHAT'S THAT ALL ABOUT. >> SAY SAID WELL THERE'S A LEDGE THAT END THERE IS A DEVIL BABY THERE. >> THAT IS RIGHT. >> WELL TELL US, ACTUALLY...
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| 00:38:58 |
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MYTH, STRANGE ONE BUT LAST YEAR I WAS AT
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| 00:39:01 |
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MOLE HE -- WHOLE HOUSE GIVING A TALK
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ABOUT THE DEVIL BABY AS LEAVING AFTER DINNER THE TOUR BUS DROVE UP AND I GO OH, I KNOW THIS STUFF. I DON'T THINK THEY WANTED
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| 00:39:11 |
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TO HEAR WHAT THE SCHOLAR HAD TO SAY BUT YEAH. AND THE -- IT -- LONG THERE WOMEN'S MEMORIES PROBABLY MOST LITERARY BOOK MAYBE THE ONE YOU WANT TO TAKE...
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| 00:40:18 |
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A FAMILY WHERE THE HUSBAND DIDN'T
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WANT THE CHILD EITHER BECAUSE IT WAS A GIRL INSTEAD
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OF A BOY, OR BECAUSE
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| 00:40:24 |
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THE HUSBAND HAD DONE SOMETHING -- SOME
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| 00:40:26 |
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BAD THINGS NOW THE BABY
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| 00:40:27 |
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CAME AND HE HAD PUT A CURSE ON THE BABY THAT WAS GOING TO COME, AND UNDER ISSUE HERE IS THAT THE BABY BECAME A DEVIL BABY BECAUSE THE FATHER HAD NOT...
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| 00:41:50 |
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ADDAMS. >> A QUESTION? >> I WAS WONDERING, IF ANYONE HAS WRITTEN ABOUT JANE
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| 00:41:56 |
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ADDAMS OTHER ACTIVIST WORK
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| 00:41:58 |
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BESIDES WHOLE HOUSE I HEARD SHE WAS COFOUNDER OF NAACP, THAT SHE WAS A COFOUNDER OF THE WOMEN POS INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM. >> SHE...
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| 00:42:12 |
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IN
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NAACP, ACLU I WILL TELL YOU ONE THING I'M SURE LOUISE FEELS THIS WAY ALSO, YOU HAVE TO WHEN YOU TELL THE STORY OF JANE ADDAMS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW...
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| 00:42:27 |
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STORIES TO TELL. I WOULD INVITE ANYBODY IN THIS AUDIENCE WHO IS INTERESTED IN HER TO TALK ABOUT HER EARLY RELATIONSHIP WITH ACLU OR NAACP, THOSE ARE...
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| 00:43:27 |
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INTERNATIONALLY. THERE IS A BOOK THAT NEEDS TO BE WRITTEN ON JANE ADAMS AND SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT SHE WAS LEADER IN THAT MOVEMENT WE NEED A BOOK ON JANE...
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FRANK
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