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Jane Addams - College Term Paper

Jane Addams

was a United States social worker, reformer, and peace advocate. During her active career of 46 years she made Hull House in Chicago world famous as a social settlement. An outspoken pacifist, Miss Addams shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University.
was born in Cedarville, Illinois, and graduated from Rockford College. She began the Study of medicine but her health broke down, and for two years she was an invalid. During several years of unhappy indecision she found her purpose when she visited Toynbee Hall, a social settlement in London. In 1889 and Ellen Gates Starr moved into the Hull House mansion, located in one of the worst slum ...

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became the leading social settlement in the United States, and a training center for social workers.
was active in Chicago in fighting civic vice and corruption. She campaigned for better working conditions, more protection for working women, for stricter child labor laws, for playgrounds, and for a juvenile court. She joined in the votes-for-women movement. After World War 1 broke out in1914 Miss Addams devoted much effort to obtaining peace. In 1915 she was elected chairman of the new Women's Peace party and was president of the International Congress of Women at The Hague, Netherlands. After the war she became president of the Women's International League for Peace and ...

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Added: 10/18/2006 01:20:57 AM
Category: Biographies
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