Documents

This showcase of documents from the 1920s examines primary sources with a fine tooth comb.

Women and New India

Interview with Lila Singh, September 1920



Feed the World and Save the League

November 24, 1920 speech by Jane Addams


Birth Control

Speech by Margaret Sanger, November 19, 1921


Statements on Railroad Strike

Union Daily Times, July 24, 1922


Lenin’s Letter to Congress

Written by Vladimir Lenin, between December 23, 1922 – January 4, 1923



Outlaw War by Constitutional Amendment

Pamphlet by the Woman’s Peace Party, ca. July 1925


Letter Regarding the Immigration Act of 1924

Letter by Manuel S. Amaral, November 25, 1925





Unaccustomed As We Are

Scene from Laurel and Hardy Film, 1929

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