Sophonisba Breckinridge
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Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge was an American activist, Progressive Era social reformer, social scientist and innovator in higher education. She was the first woman to earn a Ph.D. in political scie
Sophonisba P. Breckenridge
Julia Lathrop
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Julia Clifford Lathrop was an American social reformer in the area of education, social policy, and children's welfare. As director of the United States Children's Bureau from 1912 to 1922, she was th
Sophonisba Breckinridge
…as vocational training, housing, juvenile delinquency, and truancy. Breckinridge also collaborated with Vassar College graduate and social reformer Julia Lathrop and social gospel minister Graham Taylor (theologian), a founder of the settlement house Chicago Commons, to create the Chicago School of Civics and…
Lathrop, 1900–1920
"Miss Julia C. Lathrop", The World's Work, 1912.
Julia Lathrop, Commissioner of the United States Children's Bureau