The health of immigrants. 1943.

Abstract

MISS ADDAMS HAS GIVEN… fully the history of Hull-House, of the birth of an idea and of its fulfillment. … As one reads her earlier writings one sees that she was moved not only by the greater inequalities and injustices of society but perhaps even more by less evident, more intangible and rarely voiced evils from which men and women suffer but which sociologists often miss. She knew, because she understood people, that political equality meant little in comparison with social equality; she knew that the social exclusiveness of the well-to-do, the social ostra-cism of the “Dago,” “Polack,” “Hunky,” “Greaser,” Negro, was harder to bear than political corruption and rotten city government. Bad government led to wretched conditions, but it did not degrade the poor man in his eyes; on the contrary, the clever political boss flattered the voter's self-respect, made him feel himself of importance. Contempt, she said, is the greatest crime against one's fellow man.