JANE ADDAMS 1860 1935 SOCIAL WORKER AND WRITER ADDAMS JANE 1860 1935 REFORM MOVEMENTS HEALTH/SAFETY FEMINISM TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY JANE ADDAMS WAS BORN IN CEDARVILLE ILLINOIS HER MOTHER DIED WHEN SHE WAS TWO YEARS OLD HER FATHER WAS AN ABOLITIONIST IN 1881 ADDAMS GRADUATED FROM ROCKFORD FEMALE SEMINARY IN 1888 SHE TRAVELED TO LONDON WHERE SHE VISITED TOYNBEE HALL WHICH WAS LONDON'S FIRST SETTLEMENT HOUSE OR INSTITUTION FOR IMPROVING LIVING CONDITIONS IN CITIES THIS VISIT INSPIRED ADDAMS TO OPEN A SETTLEMENT HOUSE IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1889 SHE AND ELLEN STARR FOUNDED HULL HOUSE IN CHICAGO ADDAMS REMAINED THE LEADER OF HULL HOUSE FOR THE REST OF HER LIFE ADDAMS SOON BECAME THE LEADER OF SOCIAL SETTLEMENT WORK IN THE UNITED STATES IN 1910 SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO RECEIVE AN HONORARY DEGREE FROM YALE SHE WAS ALSO THE FIRST WOMAN ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE OF SOCIAL WORK ADDAMS FOUNDED THE NATIONAL FEDERATION OF SETTLEMENTS IN 1911 AS A COMMITTED FEMINIST ADDAMS ALSO CAMPAIGNED FOR THE WOMEN'S SUFFRAGE MOVEMENT SHE WAS ELECTED PRESIDENT OF THE WOMEN'S INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE FOR PEACE AND FREEDOM IN 1919 A POSITION SHE HELD UNTIL 1935 IN 1920 ADDAMS HELPED FOUND THE AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION AND IN 1931 SHE WAS AWARDED THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
