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Jane Addams

By Kayzia Whiteaker

Born in Cedarville, Illinois September 6th, 1860

• At the age of four she suffered spinal

tuberculosis

• Lost her sister at the age of six

Her Parents

John Huy Addams

• Miller, Banker, and landowner
• Idealist and Philanthropist
• State senator of Illinois
• From 1854-1870

Sarah Weber Addams

• Died when Jane was 2

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
• f 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…

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Hull-House

The Hull-House and So Much More…

Florence Kelley

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 1st 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: 1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage

Association

• 1911-1914: 1st 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 1st 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

1931-1st 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?