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Jane Addams: A pioneer of 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 • https://youtu.be/fNMt8dVuy0U

Discussion Question • Do you feel that settlement houses would benefit poverty stricken communities today?

Activist, Politician, & Leader • • Labor Unions National Child Labor Committee • • Sweatshops NAACP • • Pullman Strike National Conference of Charities and corrections (first female to be elected President) • Chicago clean-up • Vice President of The Playground Association of America • Anti-Lynching Campaign • Vice President of the American Association for Labor Legislation • Race and suffrage campaigns

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 • President of the Women’s Peace Party Federation of Settlements • The league of Women Voter’s • Sat on the board for Chicago’s Peace • The General Federation of Women’s Society club’s • 1 of 4 on the National Progressive • The National Women’s Trade Union Committee (First women to hold this League type of position in American History) • The Women’s Joint Congressional • Sat on the board for Chicago’s Committee Emergency Federation

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?