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Jane Addams: A pioneer

• f social work in

America

By Timothy Long

Born September 6 1860 to John and Sarah Addams

The Addams Family

The Addams Family

John Addams:

• Quaker background, a perfectionist Christian, and evangelical
• First Public Library in Cedarville, Il. (His own privet collection)
• Owned the local grain mill
• President of the Second National Bank of Freeport
• Entrepreneur interests in a local railroad and a local insurance company
• Politician (16 years in the Illinois State Senate) Part of the new Republican party that believed the government should be used for positive good , to protect the

vulnerable, and strengthen the economic infrastructure.

• Served as a conductor on the underground railroad

Education:

• B. A. Rockford Female Seminary Academy (1877)
• Editor and chief of the school magazine
• President of her class and valedictorian
• President of the Rockford Seminary Literary Society
• Smith College (Medical School)
• University of Philadelphia (Medical School) - Anna

Toynbee Hall

• Settlement house in London’s East End

Hull House

• Halsted St. in the Nineteenth ward on the West side of Chicago, Il.

Hull House

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Discussion Question

• Do you feel that settlement houses would benefit poverty stricken communities

today?

Activist, Politician, & Leader

• Labor Unions
• Sweatshops
• Pullman Strike
• Chicago clean-up
• Anti-Lynching Campaign
• Race and suffrage campaigns
• National Child Labor Committee
• NAACP
• National Conference of Charities and corrections (first female to

be elected President)

• Vice President of The Playground Association of America
• Vice President of the American Association for Labor Legislation

Suffrage

• Janes appeal to men

“A Women has no right to persuade a man to vote against his own convictions”

Activist, Politician, & Leader Continued

• First President of The National

Federation of Settlements

• Sat on the board for Chicago’s Peace

Society

• 1 of 4 on the National Progressive

Committee (First women to hold this type of position in American History)

• Sat on the board for Chicago’s

Emergency Federation

• President of the Women’s Peace Party
• The league of Women Voter’s
• The General Federation of Women’s

club’s

• The National Women’s Trade Union

League

• The Women’s Joint Congressional

Committee

The Great War

• Pacifism and the nasty decline
• The Hague (International Peace Conference)
• Pro-German criticism

1923 world tour

• Mary and Jane travel from all over Europe, to Burma, to India, to the

Philippines, to Korea, China, and Japan

• Gandhi exploration

Nobel Peace Prize (1931)

Author:

• Democracy and Social Ethics (1902): William James (Harvard Philosopher and Psychologist “One of the

great books of our time”

• Newer Ideals of Peace (1907)
• The spirit of youth and the city streets (1909) Jane writes as a storyteller as she took stories she heard in the

settlement house and brings them to life.

• Twenty years a Hull-House with Autobiographical notes (1910) Topics such as immigration, labor

legislation, social clubs, and the arts

• A new conscience and an ancient evil (1912) Supporting a campaign against human trafficking in young girls
• The long road of woman’s memory (1916) A self help book for older woman use their inner resources to

find meaning in there lives

Author Cont.

• Peace and Bread in time of war (1922)
• The Second Twenty Years at Hull House (1929)
• Growing World Consciousness (1930)
• The Excellent Becomes the permanent (1932)
• My Friend (1935)

Religion:

• Nondenominational
• 1883 Baptized
• (Tolstoy) Non-Resistance
• Devoted Christian
• Quaker (WW2)

Jane’s Love:

• Never married but proposed to twice
• Mary Rozet Smith

Discussion Question

• If Jane was alive today, what current issue do you believe would be on the

top of her list to advocate for?