Jane Addams By Kayzia Whiteaker
Born in Cedarville, Illinois September 6 th , 1860 • At the age of four she suffered spinal tuberculosis • Lost her sister at the age of six
Her Parents John Huy Addams Sarah Weber Addams • Miller, Banker, and landowner • Died when Jane was 2 • Idealist and Philanthropist • State senator of Illinois • From 1854-1870
Her Father Remarried • At the age of 8 Jane’s father remarried • Married a woman named Anna Hostetter • She had two sons • Her son George moved into the house
1877-Enters Rockford Female Seminary • She wanted to attend Smith College but was not aloud to by her father. • She made the most of going to Rockford.
1881-Graduates from Rockford • Right after she graduated for Rockford Woman’s Seminary a friend of the family assassinated President Garfield • Her brother Weber was institutionalized for paranoid schizophrenia • Her father died during a vacation • Jane suffered a nervous collapse • Diagnosed as moral failure
Goes on a tour of Europe • After she was released from the hospital after her nervous collapse she had a new back surgery. • After her recovery she went on a tour of Europe to get back to daily life. • Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England-1888 • The birth place of her idea for the Hull- House
1889-Found Hull-House • Founded with the help of Ellen Gates Starr • Offered an unprecedented co-ed experience • A health Clinic • Kindergarten • Daycare • Evening Educational programs • So much more… http://womenshistory.about.com/od/addamsjane/p/jane_addams.htm Start at 7sec stop at 2 min
Hull-House
The Hull- House and So Much More…
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Activism • 1905- 1908: Serves as a member of Chicago’s Board of Education • 1903: Becomes vice president of the National Woman’s Trade Union League • 1909: Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • 1909: Elected the 1 st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later known as the National Conference of Social Work)
Activism • 1910: Mediator in Chicago Garment Worker’s Strike • 1910: Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House • 1911-1914: 1 st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association • 1911-1914: 1 st Head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers
1912- Seconds Theodore Roosevelt’s nomination at Progressive Party convention
World Peace • 1913: Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman’s Suffrage Alliance (Budapest, Hungary) • 1915: Helps Organize Woman’s Peace Party Elected 1 st chairman • • 1915: Presides at the International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands • 1919: Founds Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom • Served as President from119-1929 • 1920: Helps Found the American Civil Liberties Union • 1928: Presides over conference of Pan- Pacific Women’s Union in Hawaii
1931-1 st American woman recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize • Jane Addams won worldwide recognition in the first third of the twentieth century as a pioneer social worker in America, as a feminist, and as an internationalist.
Dies in a hospital in Chicago • Buried in Cedarville, Illinois
Discussion Questions • Who do you think was the largest influence on Jane Addams? • Do you think if Jane Addams did not come from a wealthy family, that she would have accomplished so much? Why or why not?
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