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Born September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Ill.

Graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881

Founded Hull House on Chicago's west side in 1889

Founding member of the National Child Labor Committee in 1907

Supported the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909

Supported the founding of the National Progressive Party in 1912

Served as President of the Women's Peace Party and the Women’s International Peace Congress at The Hague in 1915

Supported the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) in 1920

Awarded Nobel Peace Prize in 1931

Died in 1935

(Michals, 2017; NASW Foundation, n.d.; Jane Addams Hull House Museum, n.d.).

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Fabricant, M. & Fisher, R. (2008). Settlements and Neighborhood Centers. In Mizrahi, T. & Davis, L. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Social Work (20th Edition). Oxford University Press.

Jane Addams Hull House Museum. (n.d.) About Jane Addams and Hull House Settlement. https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/about-jane-addams

Michals, D. (2017). Jane Addams. National Women's History Museum. https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/jane-addams

NASW Foundation. (n.d.). NASW Pioneers Biography Index. Jane Addams from January 1998 NASW News. https://www.naswfoundation.org/Our-Work/NASW-Social-Work-Pioneers/NASW-Social-Workers-Pioneers-Bio-Index/id/44

The University of Chicago, Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice. (n.d.) Our First Century, 1908 - 2008. https://ssa.uchicago.edu/our-first-century

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Jane Addams and the work she led at the Hull House helped to professionalize the field of social work. Her influence helped to make it what it is today - a profession that does more than just provide services to low-income people, but one that also works to advocate for systems-level change and to educate and empower people to create a better life for themselves.

Rather than just providing services to the poor, as the Charity Organization Society had been doing, Addams and her team at Hull House took a different approach (NASW Foundation, n.d.). Addams recognized that it was society's responsibility to care for the poor, and she understood that the cause of poverty was based on the environmental conditions and political climate that people lived in (Fabricant, M. & Fisher, R. 2008).

Addams and her team at Hull House started a new way of providing social work - one that focused on community collaboration and the fight to change the system. Addams knew then that to help people in need, it sometimes took more than just providing them services. Thus, her team worked together to seek legislative change and to improve the community (Fabricant, M. & Fisher, R. 2008).

It is because of Addams' work that today the social work profession includes advocacy for macro and mezzo change. The model of Hull House is still the model of social work practice today. The work focused on the interconnection between improving individual lives and advocating for societal change. It focused on the importance of community and community building and the collaboration of different people to advocate for social, political, and economic justice (Fabricant, M. & Fisher, R. 2008).

Addams was also one of the trustees and a teacher at the School of Social Work at the University of Chicago, the nation's first year-round social work program, when it was founded in the early 1900s (University of Chicago, n.d.). She's still recognized in Chicago for her work in the social work profession: the University of Illinois Chicago School of Social Work bears her name (University of Chicago, n.d.).

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Hull House: When Jane Addams founded the Hull House in 1889, it was a revolutionary way to help the poor. The idea behind the Hull House was that wealthy educated women would live with lower income immigrant people and together they would advocate for change. Hull House provided kindergarten and daycare for working mothers, help finding employment, an art gallery and libraries, and classes including the arts, citizenship, and theatre. The complex eventually grew to 13 buildings and included a variety of clubs and activities, meeting places for unions, and cultural and educational events (Jane Addams Hull House Museum, n.d.). Together the group advocated for numerous progressive reforms. Some of the most impressive reforms for children established by the residents of the Hull House was the creation of the first juvenile court, a juvenile psychopathic clinic, and the passage of local and federal protections for juvenile labor (Jane Addams Hull House Museum, n.d.).

Peace Movement: Jane Addams' second passion, later in life, was advocating for international peace. She was a pacifist who staunchly opposed World War I and was very outspoken about it, despite the criticism she faced for this view (Michals, 2017). She wrote numerous articles and gave speeches worldwide promoting peace (Michals, 2017). She founded the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919, and served as its president until 1929 and honorary president until her death in 1935 (Michals, 2017). Addams became the first American woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts in 1931 (Michals, 2017).

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Jane Addams was a prominent and important advocate for women, immigrants, and people in poverty. She is perhaps most well known for founding the Hull House, along with her friend Ellen Gates Starr, the first settlement house in the United States (Michals, 2017). She was a prolific writer and speaker. Through her work at the Hull House, Addams was instrumental in creating the first juvenile court system, better  sanitation and factory laws, protective labor legislation for working women, and more playgrounds and kindergartens throughout the city of Chicago (Michals, 2017). Toward the end of her life, she focused her efforts on promoting peace and opposing World War I. In 1931, she won a Nobel Peace Prize for her efforts (Michals, 2017).