Addams, Jane, (1860-1935), social reformer
Addams, Jane, (1860-1935), social reformer. One of the first generation of women college graduates, Addams founded Hull House settlement in 1889 in an immigrant neighborhood in Chicago, developing working class education and cultural programs along with political action and social science research. With her colleagues, Addams challenged boss rule in local politics, advocated women's suffrage, and promoted legislation to abolish child labor, limit hours of working women, recognize labor unions, and make school attendance compulsory. Wrote Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), and after 1915 became a leading anti-war activist.
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