Jane Addams and Hull House

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.

Hull House Established in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in Chicago’s 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

Hull House in 1996

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 meeting places for trade union groups, and a wide array of cultural events.

A LOOK INSIDE

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

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

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.

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 Women’s 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

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 Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and was its first president. Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

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

Jane Addams' Timeline (1860–1935) 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

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

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 woman’s 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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