Letter from Jane Addams and Grace Abbott at the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, to Congressman Oscar W. Underwood in Washington, D.C.

In the letter the women ask Underwood, a U.S. representative from Alabama, to oppose a proposed literacy test for immigrants. Though they does not disapprove of "an educational test as a requisite for naturalization," Addams and Abbott feel that a literacy requirement for immigration would...

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Format: Electronic
Published: Alabama Department of Archives and History
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Online Access:http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/voices/id/8400