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Jane Addams A Pacifist Reformer

Jane Addams A Pacifist Reformer. By Najeedah and Andrew. Life & Death of Jane Addams. Born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois Graduated at Rockford Female Seminary – 1881 Founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr Settled in 1889 Chicago’s Near West Side

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Jane Addams A Pacifist Reformer

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  1. Jane AddamsA Pacifist Reformer By Najeedah and Andrew

  2. Life & Death of Jane Addams • Born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois • Graduated at Rockford Female Seminary – 1881 • Founded Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr • Settled in 1889 • Chicago’s Near West Side • Died in Chicago on May 21, 1935 • Buried in Cedarville

  3. Hull-House Provided… • Kindergarten and Day Care • Employment Bureau • Art Gallery • Libraries • English Citizenship Classes • Theater • Music and Art Classes • Labor Museum • Jane Club for Single Working Girls • Meetings for Trade Union Groups • Other Cultural Clubs and Activities

  4. Addams teaching a group of children at the Hull-House Immigrant Children in front of the Hull-House

  5. Goals • Stop World War I • To open a settlement house • Rights and protection for women and children • Peacefully resolve national problems • Improve urban life • Make life easier for poor immigrants

  6. Accomplishments • Hull-House • Immigrants’ Protective League • Juvenile Protection Association • Juvenile Psychopathic Clinic • Wrote 11 Books • Numerous Articles • National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Center • First women president of National Conference of Charities and Corrections • Chair of Labor Committee of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs • Vice President of Campfire Girls • National Association for the Advancement of Colored People • American Civil Liberties Union • First WILPF president • Awarded the Nobel Prize in 1932

  7. The End

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