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Jane Addams Essay Research Paper Founder of

Jane Addams Essay, Research Paper


Founder of Hull-House in Chicago, first president of the Women’s International League for Peace and


Freedom, and co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Jane Addams was a dedicated crusader for


social justice.


Her lifes’ work was to fight for the under priviliged and oppressed, also for the rights of workers, women


and children.


Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois. As a child, Jane


often felt like an outcast. She was “an ugly, piegon-toed little girl whose crooked back obliged her to walk


with her head held very much upon one side.” Even though she grew-up in a nice, well-kept community she


felt overwhelming sorrow for those in other communities who lived in “horrid little houses,” she was always


asking herself what could be done to make them less horrid. Feeling like a misfit herself, Jane could


sympathize with the misfits and outcasts of society.


Jane studie

d at Rockford Seminary, a school for girls where the emphasis was on religion and Good


Works. After having a breakdown, Jane was sent to Europe to “drink up the culture of the Old World,” but


instead Jane visited the factories and slums with her companion Ellen Starr. During one of her visits to


London’s East Side she came upon Toynbee Hall, a religious settlement house for London’s poor. It was


then that she decided to have her own settlement house one day, but without the emphasis on religion.


When Jane and Ellen returned to Chicago they found an old mansion that was built by the merchant,


Charles Hull and owned by Helen Culver, a woman known for her generosity. Jane bought the mansion and


opened it as a settlement house on September 18, 1889, Hull-House was Chicago’s first


settlement house. Jane Addams started one of…


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