Jane Addams
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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 s
Addams c. 1926
Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago
Jane Addams, 1915
A 1912 sketch of Addams with Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, both members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Addams was a vice president of the organization.
Settlement movement
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The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its main object was the establishment of settle
Jane Addams
…Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) 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…
Toynbee Hall settlement house, founded 1884, pictured here in 1902
Bishop Creighton House, founded 1907 in Fulham in memory of the late Bishop of London
Bohemian immigrant youth at the Lessie Bates Davis Neighborhood House in 1918 in East St. Louis, Illinois
Site of the Communal Club for Working Children, a cornerstone of the Russian Settlement network.