Jane Addams
Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a pioneer settlement worker, founder of Hull House in Chicago, public philosopher, sociologist, author, and leader in woman suffrage and world peace. Beside presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, she was the most prominent reformer of the Progressive Era and helped turn the nation to issues of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, public health, and world peace. She said that if women were to be responsible for cleaning up their communities and making them better places to live, they needed the vote to be effective in doing so. Addams became a role model for middle-class women who volunteered to uplift their communities. She is increasingly recognized as a member of the American pragmatist school of philosophy. In 1931 she became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Read more about Jane Addams.
Some articles on jane addams:
... These first three toll highways are the present day Jane Addams Memorial Tollway (I-90/I-39/US 51), the Tri-State Tollway (I-94/I-294) and the ... The first segment to open was the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway between Devon Avenue and Elgin on August 20, 1958 at 3 p.m ... miles per hour (105 km/h) on the segment of the Jane Addams Tollway west of milepost 49 and on the Reagan Tollway west of milepost 99 ...
... Committee of Women for Permanent Peace (ICWPP) with Jane Addams as president ... Jane Addams met with President Woodrow Wilson and is said to have worked out some common ground on peace ... for their peace efforts and international outlook and work with WILPF Jane Addams, in 1931 and Emily Greene Balch in 1946 ...
... The Jane Addams Children's Book Award is given annually to a children's book published the preceding year that advances the causes of peace and social equality ... Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) and the Jane Addams Peace Association ...
... renamed the Northwest Tollway as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway ... Jane Addams House is a residence hall built in 1947, at Connecticut College ... The Hull residence itself was preserved as a museum and monument to Jane Addams ...
... Jane Addams Children's Book Awards, annual awards for children’s books Jane Addams College of Social Work, a college at the University of Illinois at Chicago Jane ...
Famous quotes containing the words addams and/or jane:
“I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.”
—Jane Addams (1860–1935)
“I want the kind of job that is interesting but doesn’t take very much time.”
—Anonymous 14-year-old, U.S. niece of author Jane O’Reilly. As quoted in The Girl I Left Behind, ch. 7, by Jane O’Reilly (1980)