Jane Addams
Jane Addams dedicated her life to helping the urban poor. She wanted the make the idea of civic equality a reality. She was an advocate to abolish labor, women’s suffrage, and war. She wanted to integrate the poor immigrants into American society and became a pioneer social worker.
She started the Hull House, which provided social services to the poor people in the city. Hull House offered classes that taught cooking, hygiene, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. They also provided child care, a kindergarten and build the first playground in Chicago. Every week, 9,000 people, came to Hull House. Her example helped inspire more than 400 other settlement houses around the country.
Addams was a key architect of what we would come to call the welfare state. She tirelessly campaigned to end sweatshops and tenement housing, end corrupt boss rule, ban child labor, provide legal protections for immigrants, and establish juvenile courts.
Later she wrote her memoir Twenty Years at Hull House. It was a best-seller when it was published in 1910. But in 1915, the public began to turn against her when she founded the Women's Peace Party. She was also elected president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, she opposed the peace treaty ending the war as vindictive. Also, in 1931, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
She started the Hull House, which provided social services to the poor people in the city. Hull House offered classes that taught cooking, hygiene, and the rights and responsibilities of citizenship. They also provided child care, a kindergarten and build the first playground in Chicago. Every week, 9,000 people, came to Hull House. Her example helped inspire more than 400 other settlement houses around the country.
Addams was a key architect of what we would come to call the welfare state. She tirelessly campaigned to end sweatshops and tenement housing, end corrupt boss rule, ban child labor, provide legal protections for immigrants, and establish juvenile courts.
Later she wrote her memoir Twenty Years at Hull House. It was a best-seller when it was published in 1910. But in 1915, the public began to turn against her when she founded the Women's Peace Party. She was also elected president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, she opposed the peace treaty ending the war as vindictive. Also, in 1931, she won the Nobel Peace Prize.
This video is interesting because it explains how the Hull House is now haunted. And how Jane Addams came to own this house.
This cartoon shows women's suffrage and this is one of the things Jane Addams successfully reformed.