https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6 Made with a taste for adventure en-us 2019-02-08 23:22:59 UTC 2025-04-15 19:34:19 UTC hello@padlet.com danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329433386 November 1878- June 1939
A pioneer of both immigrant and child labor rights. ]]> 2019-02-08 23:25:35 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329433386 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329433517 2019-02-08 23:27:38 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329433517 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329433873 After completing her undergraduate degree at University of Nebraska and University of Chicago, Abbott moved to Chicago full time in 1907 and became a resident at the Hull House. There, she became close with Jane Adams. In 1909 she received her doctoral degree in political science from University of Chicago . (Britannica, 2018).]]> 2019-02-08 23:29:32 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329433873 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329434202 Soon there after, Grace became the director of the Immigrants' Protective League (IPL). At the league, Abbott examined the conditions on Ellis Island, a main point of entry for immigrants into the US, and worked toward creating protective legislature for this minority population (Britannica, 2018). ]]> 2019-02-08 23:34:27 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329434202 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329434745 2019-02-08 23:42:34 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329434745 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329434845 2019-02-08 23:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329434845 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329435132 Britannica, T. E. (2018, November 13). Grace Abbott. Retrieved February 8, 2019, from https://www.britannica.com/biography/Grace-Abbott

The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration. (2019). Grace Abbott. Retrieved from https://www.ssa.uchicago.edu/grace-abbott]]> 2019-02-08 23:47:12 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329435132 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329435522 At the IPL, Abbott worked to improve the living conditions of immigrants' and help them adjust to their new life in the United States. She worked to create legislature that protected immigrants from  being exploited in the workplace as well as education to immigrant children.  (The University of Chicago, 2019). ]]> 2019-02-08 23:51:51 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329435522 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329436593 By 1917, Abbott began working as the director of the Industrial Division at the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. She began working toward the first federal child labor laws. (The University of Chicago, 2019).  The Keating-Owen Act of 1916 was declared unconstitutional two years later, but aimed to establish child-labor limitations in the workforce (Britannica, 2018). ]]> 2019-02-09 00:05:59 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329436593 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329439657 From 1922-1934, Abbott was deemed the official representative of the United States at the League of Nations' advisory committee for trafficking women and child welfare (The University of Chicago, 2019). ]]> 2019-02-09 00:45:21 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329439657 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329439858 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dubbed Abbott's career as, "inestimable value to the children, the mothers, and fathers of the country, as well as to the Federal and state governments" (The University of Chicago, 2019)]]> 2019-02-09 00:48:37 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329439858 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329439953 2019-02-09 00:49:59 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329439953 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329440081 2019-02-09 00:51:29 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329440081 danitrujillo https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329440094 2019-02-09 00:51:42 UTC https://padlet.com/danitrujillo/mm522gi915w6/wish/329440094