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An advocate for world peace, and recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States, in 1931, Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. [12] She was a radical pragmatist and arguably the first woman public philosopher in the United States. [13]
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.
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, she...
By Debra Michals, PhD | 2017. A progressive social reformer and activist, Jane Addams was on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She later became internationally respected for the peace activism that ultimately won her a Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, the first American woman to receive this honor.
Apr 2, 2014 · Who Was Jane Addams? Jane Addams co-founded one of the first settlements in the United States, the Hull House in Chicago, Illinois, in 1889, and was named a co-winner of the 1931 Nobel...
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. In addition to her role as an activist, she became a sociologist and a scholar.
Jun 7, 2006 · Jane Addams. First published Wed Jun 7, 2006; substantive revision Thu Jul 7, 2022. Jane Addams (1860–1935) was an activist, community organizer, international peace advocate, and social philosopher in the United States during the late 19th century and early 20th century.
