Addams speaks out against the Palmer Raids

At Recital Hall, on Michigan Avenue, in Chicago, Addams gives an address in which she is critical of the government's having rounded up and arrested, for the purpose of deportation, suspected radicals affiliated with socialist, anarchist, and other political causes deemed threatening to the United States. Addams is again criticized in the press, with one paper calling her a "philosophical anarchist" and suffering under a "spirit of sublime detachment" from the threat radicals posed to the country. Addams responds by questioning the propriety of the methods employed in the raids as unjust and unlawful, but she concedes that some caught up in the raids were probably dangerous characters. "We come around to the old situation," she wrote, "that an injustice against the most wretched man in the community is, in the end, an injustice against all of us." (Levine, 234)

1920-02-22

“Deportation of Radicals Rapped By Jane Addams.” Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1922): 23 Feb. 1920: 17. Tribune Publishing Company. ProQuest. Web. 12 June 2017.

“Jane Addams Heads Meeting of Protest on Deportations.” Chicago Daily Tribune (1872-1922): 2. Tribune Publishing Company. ProQuest. 12 June 2017.