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3 days ago · Laura Jane Addams[1] (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, [2][3] sociologist, [4] public administrator, [5][6] philosopher, [7][8] and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and Women's suffrage. [9]
Sep 2, 2024 · Jane Addams (born September 6, 1860, Cedarville, Illinois, U.S.—died May 21, 1935, Chicago, Illinois) was an American social reformer and pacifist, co-winner (with Nicholas Murray Butler) of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931.
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- Jane Addams cofounded and led Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in North America. Hull House provided child care, practical and cultur...
- Addams was the first woman president of the National Conference of Social Work. A pacifist, she served as president of the International Congress o...
- Addams believed that effective social reform required the more- and less-fortunate to get to know one another and also required research into the c...
6 days ago · Jane Addams, ca. 1920-1923 (Swarthmore College Peace Collection) With the summer passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, all American women had the right to vote in the Presidential Election of 1920. This historic moment for women after a seventy-two-year fight for equal citizenship, which had begun at the Seneca Falls Convention ...
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Sep 2, 2024 · Jane Addams had earned a national reputation as a leading thinker in America, her opinions held widespread sway, and she had impressive power to influence politicians.
6 days ago · Jane Addams, ca. 1920-1923 (Swarthmore College Peace Collection) With the summer passage and ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, all American women had the right to vote in the Presidential Election of 1920.
Sep 6, 2024 · Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. After graduating from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Addams left her native Illinois for Philadelphia where she enrolled at the Woman’s Medical College.
Sep 2, 2024 · Jane Addams. Gerhard Sisters, photographer, ca. 1914. Social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams was born Sept. 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois. After graduating from Rockford Female Seminary in...
