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This sounds like an essay question for your school, but Jane Addams was an outspoken advocate for peace and for immigrants' civil rights while the majority of Americans supported World War I and feared foreign socialists and radicals. She made a speech at Carnegie Hall in support of pacifism and was labeled unpatriotic.

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