Social Activism
When she obtained an appointment as a part-time professor in the Department of Household Administration which was a part of the Sociology department, in 1907, she also became a resident of Hull House. As a resident of Hull House until 1920, she became active in several causes, including:
- Women's suffrage
- African-American civil rights (she helped establish the NAACP)
- Labor
- Immigration
- Children's protection and labor laws reform
- Progressive Party
- Pacifism
When the women of Chicago gained limited voting rights in 1913, Breckinridge was one of eight women that ran for "alderwomanic" office.
Read more about this topic: Sophonisba Breckinridge
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“The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order.”
—Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)