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Jane Addams and Hull House
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Jane Addams
Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860.
Together with Ellen Gates Starr, Jane started a settlement house loosely based on Toynbee Hall in London.
She opened Hull-House in Chicago's Near West Side in 1889.
This was BEFORE women had the right to vote!
The Nobel Peace Prize Winner 1931
-pioneer in social work
-Founded international peace organization: Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
Source: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/addams-facts.html
Hull House
Jane was known as "mother to the world"
Hull House Nursery c.1890
Jane Addams Firsts
Hull House
1st female president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later known as the National Conference of Social Work. )
1st woman in America to receive the Nobel Prize.
1st woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale University.
Was a founder, in 1908, of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy
Jane designed Hull house to:
"provide a center for a higher civic and social life;
to institute and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and
to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago"