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About Jane Addams and Hull House. (n.d.). Retrieved September 20, 2017, from Jane Addams Hull-House Museum website: http://www.hullhousemuseum.org/about-jane-addams 

 Hansan, J.E. (2010, December 
14). Jane Addams (1860-1935): Founder of Hull House, social reformer, women’s advocate and winner of Nobel Peace Prize. Social Welfare History Project. Retrieved [9/20/2017] from http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/settlement-houses/addams-jane/

Jansson, B. S. (2015). Brooks/Cole Empowerment Series: The Reluctant Welfare State, 8th Edition. [CengageBrain Bookshelf]. Retrieved from https://cengagebrain.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781305177253/

Jane Addams died in Chicago on May 21, 1935. She was buried in Cedarville, her childhood home town (About Jane Addams).

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Photo: THE NEW YORK TIMES, (May 22, 1935)

As a result of her efforts to promote peace and social justice, Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931(Jannson, 2015, p. 182).

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Jane became involved in the peace movement prior to the United States entering World War One. She and other women from different nations met at the International Congress of Women at the Hague in 1915, attempting to stop the war. She maintained her pacifist stance after the United States entered the war in 1917, and she faced many attacks from critics stating she was a communist or a German sympathizer. Jane founded the Women's Peace Party, which became the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1919. (Jannson, 2015, p. 182).

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Photo: Jane Addams with International Congress of Women at the Hague (1915)

The efforts of Jane and the women at Hull-House resulted in the Illinois legislature enacting protective legislation for women and children and, in 1903, passed a strong child labor law and an accompanying compulsory education law. With the creation of the United States Children’s Bureau in 1912 and the passage of a federal child labor law in 1916, the Hull-House reformers saw their efforts expanded to the national level (Hansan, J., 2010).

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Jane became involved as a leader in municipal reforms in Chicago. As a labor rights activist, she participated in many movements including the Pullman strike of 1894, the Chicago stockyards strike of 1904 and the textile workers strike of 1910 (Jannson, 2015, p. 182). Jane and Hull-House reformers lobbied Illinois government on issues concerning child labor, factory safety and the juvenile justice system. They also sought to protect immigrants from exploitation, limit the working hours of women and mandate schooling for children (Hansan, J., 2010).

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Jane and Ellen learned that the impoverished recent immigrants in the neighborhood struggled with few resources. Jane and Ellen established a kindergarten, provided medical service, established a night adult education program, staffed an employment bureau, fed the hungry, encouraged kids and adults to create art, set up a circulating library, and started a daycare center (About Jane Addams).

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Photo: Daycare center at Hull- House, (date unknown)

One of the goals of the Hull- House were to expand and provide education regarding social services and young, middle-class American women gained skills at Hull House to work with and advocate for those living in poverty. Well-known and educated social workers were educated at Hull-House and Hull-House soon became known as a leader in the settlement house and social reform movement (Jannson, 2015, p. 182).

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In 1889, Jane and her close friend Ellen Gates Starr moved to the Charles J. Hull mansion in an impoverished neighborhood in Chicago to start the Hull-House, a first of it's kind settlement house in the United States (Jannson, 2015, p. 182).

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Photo: Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr (date unknown)

After leaving college due to illness, Jane explored potential career interests in mission work. While visiting England in 1887, Jane visited the Toynbee Hall Project (a settlement house) in London. Jane learned Toynbee Hall provided clergy members with exposure to the urban poor to teach them to provide better service to the impoverished. Jane was inspired by the project and sought to replicate it in the United States (Jannson, 2015, p. 182).

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Photo: Jane Addams (1889)

Jane was born in Cedarville, Illinois to Sarah and John Huey Addams in 1860. John Addams was an Illinois state senator and instilled in Jane an appreciation for the value of hard work and civic duty (Jannson, 2015, p. 182).

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Photo: Jane Addams (age 8)

Jane Addams is recognized as a pioneer of social work and is most famously known as the founder of Hull-House in Chicago (Jannson, 2015, p. 182).

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