Jane Addams
American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860-1935) · United States · Activists · Died at 74
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Something wrong?Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage.
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Portrait of Jane Addams, from a charcoal drawing in 1892 by Alice Kellogg Tyler. Source: Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p. 114
Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago
Birthplace of Jane Addams in Cedarville, Illinois. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), in the public domain.
Main entrance to Hull House. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p.128
A Doorway in Hull House Court. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p.149
Jane Addams, 1915
Polk Street opposite Hull House. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p.95Awards
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Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage. In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Philosophically a "radical pragmatist", she was arguably the first woman public philosopher in the United States. In the Progressive Era, when even presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and might be seen as social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers.
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