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Jane Addams and Hull House were pioneers of social reform in the United States. Addams’ efforts, both through Hull House and independently, laid groundwork for women’s rights, children’s rights, workers’ rights, and education still felt today.
Apr 16, 2010 · Jane Addams (1860-1935) was a peace activist and a leader of the settlement house movement in America. As one of the most distinguished of the first generation of college-educated women,...
In 1889, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr established Hull-House in Chicago, the first settlement house in the United States. By the late 1800s, Chicago had begun its transformation into the manufacturing hub of the United States.
May 17, 2024 · Jane Addams, American social reformer and pacifist, cowinner of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 1931. She is best known as a cofounder (with Ellen Gates Starr) of Hull House in Chicago, one of the first social settlements in North America, which was established to aid needy immigrants.
Hull House, Chicago's first and the nation's most influential settlement house, was established by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr on the Near West Side on September 18, 1889. By 1907, the converted 1856 mansion had expanded to a massive 13-building complex covering nearly a city block.
From Hull-House, where she lived and worked until her death in 1935, Jane Addams fought for peace during war-time, advocated for women’s right to vote, and supported safety, education, and play for all, both in her neighborhood and around the world.
No longer just a keeper of Hull-House, the improver of the Nineteenth Ward, Jane Addams spoke out on the leading issues of the day—condemning the war in the Philippines, lynchings in the South, and race riots in Atlanta and Springfield.
