How Did Iowa Women Activists
Lobby for the
Passage of the Juvenile Court Law in 1904?
Document List
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1: Cora Bussey Hillis, “One Way to Organize a Mother’s Club”
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2: The Great Convention of the National Congress
of Mothers, 23 May 1900
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3: Hannah Kent Schoff to Cora Bussey Hillis, 11 January 1902
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4: Richard Tuthill to Cora Bussey Hillis, 1 December 1903
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5: Richard Tuthill to Cora Bussey Hillis, 10 January 1904
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6: Hannah Kent Schoff to Cora Bussey Hillis, 11 January 1904
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7: Ben Lindsey to Cora Bussey Hillis, 11 January 1904.
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8: “Juvenile Court Movement Grows,” 14 January 1904
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9: Ben Lindsey to Albert Cummins, 3 February
1904
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10: An Act Enlarging the Powers of the District Court, and to Regulate
the Treatments and Control of Dependant, Neglected and Delinquent Children,
7 April 1904
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11: Order In the Matter of a Detention Home in Connection with the
Administration of the Juvenile Court, 1 April 1905
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12: Minutes of the Board of Managers of the Detention Home
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13: “12 Years for a Five-Cent Theft,” 1 September 1904
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14: Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census, Special
Reports, Prisoners and Juvenile Delinquents in Institutions, 1904, 1907
