Jane Addams and Hull House

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Jane Addams and Hull House
Joyce Chow Xuyen Ung Mariah James
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Settlement Houses

• First social settlements established in 1880s in
  London to help with problems caused by
  urbanization, immigration, and industrialization.
• Their residents were usually educated and
  middle- or upper-class, native born, men and
  women.
• The residents settled in poor urban
  neighborhoods.

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Hull House

• Established in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen
  Gates Starr in Chicagos Near West Side.
• Became a world famous social settlement.
• Residents of Hull House included
• -Jane Addams
• -Ellen Gates Starr
• -Florence Kelley
• -Dr. Alice Hamilton
• -Julia Lathrop
• -Sophonisba Breckenridge
• -Grace and Edith Abbott

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Hull House in 1996
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Services They Provided

• Kindergarten and day care
• Employment bureau
• Art gallery
• Libraries
• English and citizenship classes
• Theater, music, and art classes
• Later, more clubs and activities were added.

Children playing in Hull House
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A LOOK INSIDE
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• The settlement house included
• public kitchen
• a coffee house
• a gymnasium
• a swimming pool

Coffee house

• clubhouse for girls
• book bindery
• art studio
• a library
• employment bureau

Library
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Hull House community consisted of eighteen
national groups

• Italian
• Greek
• Mexican
• British
• Scandinavian
• Polish
• German
• Russian
• Czechoslovakian

• French
• Lithuanian
• Hungarian
• Swiss
• Rumanian
• Yugoslavian
• Belgian
• Finnish
• Dutch

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A music school was introduced along with a
successful theater. Plays were performed by
residents from the neighborhood. Some plays
plots included the importance of women in
history.
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Jane Addams Organizations

• A founder of the Chicago Federation of
  Settlements (1894) and of the National Federation
  of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers (1911).
• A leader in the Consumers League
• First woman president of the National Conference
  of Charities and Corrections.
• Chair of the Labor Committee of the General
  Federation of Womens Clubs
• Vice president of the Campfire Girls
• Member of the executive boards of the National
  Playground Association and the National Child
  Labor Committee
• Supported campaign for woman suffrage and racial
  equality

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Jane Addams, cont.

• Wrote on topics related to Hull House and spoke
  nationwide and throughout the world.
• Became involved in peace movement in early 20th
  century.
• Helped form the Womens International League for
  Peace and Freedom and was its first president.
• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

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Effects of Jane Addams Work

• At one point, around 2,000 people visited Hull
  House each week.
• Labor reforms
• Better care for the poor

Jane Addams on U.S. postage stamp of 1940
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Jane Addams' Timeline (18601935)

• 1860 -- Born in Cedarville, Illinois
• 1877 -- Enters Rockford Female Seminary
• 1889 -- Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in
  Chicago, with Ellen Gates
• Starr
• 1894 -- Helps found Chicago Federation of
  Settlements
• 1903 -- Becomes vice president of National
  Woman's Trade Union League
• 1905-08 -- Serves as member of Chicago Board of
  Education
• 1909 -- Helps to found the National Association
  for the Advancement of
• Colored People

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• 1910 -- Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House
• 1913 -- Attends Conference and Congress of
  International Woman's
• Suffrage Alliance, Budapest,
  Hungary
• 1915 -- Helps organize Woman's Peace Party,
  elected 1st Chairman
• 1919 -- Founds Women's International League for
  Peace and
• Freedom, serves as President
  1919-29
• 1928 -- Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific
  Women's Union in
• Hawaii
• 1931 -- 1st American woman recipient of Nobel
  Peace Prize
• 1935 -- Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried
  in Cedarville,
• Illinois

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Jane Addams' Biography

• studied medicine for 6 years
• discovered Toynbee Hall in London
• founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates
  Starr
• spoke and wrote widely about settlement work
• was a leader in the womans suffrage and pacifist
  movements
• believed that women should make their voices
  heard in legislation and therefore should have
  the right to vote
• first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace
  Prize

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Works Cited

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• Addams, Jane. The Columbia Encyclopedia.
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• Luft, Margaret. About. Jane Addams Hull House.
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• Nobel Lectures, Peace 1926-1950, Editor Frederick
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• http//www.swarthmore.edu (5 Jan. 2006).
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