https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr SW 630 Historical Figure Virtual Poster en-us 2023-02-19 01:58:42 UTC 2023-02-19 03:55:04 UTC hello@padlet.com kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487360495 Laura Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, IL on September 6, 1860. She was the daughter of a senator and mill owner John Addams, and the sister of Alice Haldeman and 7 other siblings. Jane was a member of the privileged class and was able to attend college at Rockford seminary, an all-women's college.

Jane chose not to get married and was able to travel abroad after college. During one of her trips, she visited the Toynbee Hall in London, which was a Christian settlement house that was a community of young men helping and living with indigent Londoners. Jane was inspired, and enlisted the help of her college friend Ellen Gates Starr to create something similar in America. 

Thus, Hull-House was born.

Addams began publishing essays and speaking publicly about her philosophy. She became very popular and involved with progressive campaigns including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

Jane was an outspoken pacifist and refused to endorse World War I or America's entry into it. However, national patriotism was on the rise as America entered the war. Popular opinion in the nation did not agree with Jane. 

With her pacifist views, Jane's popularity began to fall, and she became the focus of criticism. Specifically, Los Angeles Times wrote "If Miss Addams and her peace mission are a sample of women in world affairs, I want to take it all back. I am sincerely sorry I voted for suffrage." (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

 Another writer published that what Addams needed to correct her pacifism was "a strong, forceful husband who would life the burden of fate from her shoulders and get her intensely interested in fancy work and other things dear to the heart of women who have homes and plenty of time on their hands." (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

The focus of Jane's essays turned to the nature of peace and war and she published several books solely devoted to these topics. In 1931, despite the ups and downs of her reputation, Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize "for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind" (Nobel Foundation Archive). Jane was the second woman to be awarded the prize.

Jane died in 1935 of cancer. ]]> 2023-02-19 02:37:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487360495 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487360670 2023-02-19 02:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487360670 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487365017 Jane wrote 11 books, numerous articles, and spoke publicly across the nation and even internationally. 

Jane was a founder of the Chicago Federation of Settlements in 1894, and helped establish the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, which was later re-named the National Conference of Social Work. She was vice-president of the Campfire Girls, an executive board member of National Playground Association and the National Child Labor Committee, and chair of the Labor Committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs.

Jane actively supported the suffrage campaign and the founding of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (1909) and in 1915 Jane served at The Hague as chairman of the International Congress of Women. She supported the founding of the American Civil Liberties Union (1920). Jane advocated for the first juvenile-court law, tenement-house regulation, an eight-hour working day for women, factory inspection, and workers' compensation. Jane spoke out for research aimed at determining the causes of poverty and crime.

Jane was the second woman to ever win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was awarded the prize in 1931.]]> 2023-02-19 02:58:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487365017 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487366989 Hull-House was the first settlement house in the United States. Founded by Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams, it was established to offer social services to the surrounding poor immigrant community in Chicago--the Nineteenth Ward.

Hull-House was build in 1856, but as a settlement house was eventually expanded into a 13 building complex that spanned an entire city block. Facilities included a kindergarten, classrooms, libraries, art galleries, a theater, a gymnasium, a pool, and dormitories (NPS). The early residents held reading groups and sewing classes, delivered babies, nursed the sick, prepared the dead for burial, and occasionally sheltered young women from abuse (Gibbon, 2021). Over time these services expanded to include English instruction, adult education, and boys and girls clubs (Gibbon, 2021).

A majority of the staff were educated single women from middle and upper class families. Some lived at Hull-House and others commuted. Many Hull-House workers supported social and political reforms including women's suffrage, protective labor laws for women and children, and housing and sanitation problems. Hull-House became a symbol of progressivism and the reform movement that occurred between 1890 and 1920.

"Hull-House was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1965. It was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1966" (NPS). ]]> 2023-02-19 03:07:33 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487366989 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487367648 Visit Hull-House at your own pace at the Hull-House Museum website:
Hull-House Virtual Tour — Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (hullhousemuseum.org)]]> 2023-02-19 03:09:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487367648 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487370459 About Jane Addams and Hull-House. Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. https://www.hullhousemuseum.org/about-jane-addams

Gibbon, P. (2021). Jane Addams: A Hero for Our Time. Humanities, 42(4). https://www.neh.gov/article/jane-addams-hero-our-time

Jane Addams: Facts. The Nobel Prize. https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1931/addams/facts/

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

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. (June 7, 2006). Jane Addams. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/addams-jane/

The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Jane Addams: American social reformer. Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jane-Addams




]]> 2023-02-19 03:21:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487370459 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487374083 2023-02-19 03:37:07 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487374083 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487374146 2023-02-19 03:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487374146 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487376396 digital archives from University of Chicago. A newspaper article discusses settlement houses and their impact. Hull-House is discussed on p. 13/18 ]]> 2023-02-19 03:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487376396 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487377785 Peace and Bread in Time of War. Published 1922]]> 2023-02-19 03:53:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487377785 kimberlyhartman1 https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487377998 Democracy and Social Ethics, published 1913]]> 2023-02-19 03:54:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kimberlyhartman1/ucpr898fnx4n4abr/wish/2487377998