Jane Addams: Honor Before Popularity
Jane Addams wanted many things in her life, but first and foremost, she wanted to live a life that was useful and of service to others. Before orld ar I, Addams was probably the most beloved woman in America. "In a newspaper poll that asked, "ho among our contemporaries are of the most value to the community?" Jane Addams was second, after Thomas Edison." (p. 28) Jane Addams promoted her democratic ideals as the founder of a settlement house, educator, author, labor advocate, and suffragist. But more than that, she maintained a lifestyle that reflected those beliefs and left a legacy of democratic values behind her.
Addams lectured and wrote widely on her views. She published the first of many books, Democracy and Social Ethics, in 1902. She influenced children and women's labor laws, welfare procedures, industrial standards, workplace safety, and the juvenile court system, among other…...
mlaWorks Cited
Davis, Allen F., American Heroine: The Life and Legend of Jane Addams, Oxford University Press, 1973.
Jane Addams should be based on her position as a leading light of her times. She was born in 1860 at Cedarville, in Illinois on 6th of September. She became a graduate from ockford Female Seminary in 1881 and became a graduate only the year after when the institution was recognized as a College. Her father passed away in 1881, and she was not successful at Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania left her depressed and aimless for some years. She went to Europe for the period from 1883 to 1885 but did not choose a suitable vocation. This also happened due her stay in Baltimore from 1885 to 1887. (Addams, Jane (1860-1935), Social eformer) Yet she was aware of the needs of helping persons who were in a worse situation than she was as she had enough experiences of meeting the vagaries of nature. Her mother passed away when she…...
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Jane Addams was a pacifist, becoming involved with peace movements as early as 1898, according to Cimbala and Miller in Against the Tide: omen Reformers in American Society. She opposed the involvement of the United States in orld ar I and was deeply involved in the omen's International League for Peace and Freedom.
ritings
Jane Addams was a prolific writer. Elshtain, in Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life, provides a list of books written by Jane Addams, including Democracy and Social Ethics (1902); Newer Ideals of Peace (1907); The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets (1909); Twenty Years at Hull House (1910); A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil (1912); omen at the Hague: The International Congress of omen and Its Results (1915), which was co-authored with two other women; The Long Road of omen's Memory (1916); Peace and Bread in Time of ar (1922); The Second…...
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Addams, Jane. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1909, 8.
Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House. New York: The Macmillan Company, 1910. Quoted in Stillman, 1998.
Cimbala, Paul A., and Miller, Randall M. Against the Tide: Women Reformers in American Society. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1997.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke. Jane Addams and the Dream of American Democracy: A Life. New York: Basic Books, 2002, xxii - xix.
JANE ADDAMS & HE HULL HOUSE
Jane lost her mother at less than 3 years of age.
She was also physically disabled hence had empathy over the less privileged.
She joined school when education was considered manageable for the girl child.
Rockford Seminary offered courses to suit girls.
Jane benefitted from a new system that offered mathematics, philosophy, Latin and Greek for all students.
Jane Addams & the Hull House
ribulations that Jane suffered when she was like the death of her mother when she was hardly three years old and the congenital spinal injury endeared her to the course of helping others (Linn, 1935). Growing up motherless and physically disabled made her responsive to the plight of the disadvantaged. Jane followed in the trail of her other three sisters in 1877 when she joined the Rockford Seminary. By the time she was joining the school the notion that college education was too strenuous for the girl-child…...
mlaThe center also had a kindergarten and boy's center.
Later on a coffee shop was opened.
experience at Toynbee compelled her to form a similar community center in the United States. Back in the United States, Addams and Ellen Gates Starr rented a run-down mansion that once belonged to one Charles Hull in 1899. The house was situated in Chicago's industrial areas. European immigrants who had come to the United States in search of better life
Washington and AddamsIntroductionBooker T. Washington and Jane Addams both appealed to the American value of equality by emphasizing the importance of education and opportunity for all. Washington argued that African Americans should be given the opportunity to learn trades and skills that would enable them to become self-sufficient and independent. He argued that this would lead to greater equality between the races, as African Americans would be able to compete on an equal footing with whites in the economic sphere. Addams, meanwhile, argued that the social question could be addressed by providing greater access to education and opportunity for all, regardless of race or class. She argued that this would lead to greater equality between the classes, as those from lower classes would be able to compete on an equal footing with those from higher classes. Both Washington and Addams sought to redefine the American value of equality by emphasizing…...
mlaWorks Cited
Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House. https://cdn.fulltextarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/wp-advanced-pdf/1/Twenty-Years-At-Hull-House.pdf
Washington, Booker T. “Atlanta Compromise.”
Washington, Booker T. “Industrial Education.”
They left the city's poorest people to their own devices; something Addams felt had to stop for the country to truly call itself a democracy.
Addams ideas were not only concerning shelter and hunger. She also wanted Hull-House to be a place where people could gather socially to learn new ideas, enrich their lives, and even have their own social gatherings. She notes, "The Hull-House students and club members supped together in little groups or held their reunions and social banquets, as, to a certain extent, did organizations from all parts of the town (98). The house was open to any and all, and it provided a safe, comfortable atmosphere where people could meet, learn more about each other, and study topics they wanted to learn more about. The fact that so many different people used the house regularly shows that Addams ideas were accepted by many members of the…...
mlaReferences
Addams, Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull-House. Victoria Bissell Brown, ed. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 1999.
Essay Topic Examples
1. Jane Addams and the Development of Social Work:
Explore how Jane Addams was instrumental in the founding of social work as a profession. Delve into her establishment of Hull House, her role in providing social services, and her influence on the educational aspects of social work, including the development of social work training and education.
2. rogressive Era Reforms through the Lens of Jane Addams:
Analyze the impact that Jane Addams had on rogressive Era reforms. Discuss her advocacy for child labor laws, women's suffrage, and improved public health. Examine how her work with Hull House and other social initiatives contributed to wider social change in the United States.
3. The hilosophy and Legacy of Jane Addams' acifism:
Study the philosophical grounds of Jane Addams' pacifism and her efforts for peace, which ultimately led to her receiving the Nobel eace rize. Assess the importance of her work in the context of World…...
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Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull-House with Autobiographical Notes. Macmillan, 1912.
Addams, Jane. Democracy and Social Ethics. Macmillan, 1902.Addams, Jane. \"Why Women Should Vote.\" Ladies\' Home Journal, vol. 27, no. 1, 1910, pp. 21-22.Addams, Jane. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets. Macmillan, 1909.Addams, Jane. Peace and Bread in Time of War. Macmillan, 1922.
Hull House, Chicago: An Effort Toward Social Democracy" Jane Addams; 2) "The Bitter Cry Children" John Spargo; 3) "The 1908 Methodist Social Creed.
Early American Progressives' Goals and Rhetoric
The early American Progressives, whose ideology is represented by these documents, the "1908 Methodist Social Creed," John Spargo's "From the Bitter Cry of Children" and Jane Addams' "Hull House, Chicago: An Effort Toward Social Democracy," wanted to achieve better working and living conditions for the working poor. The writers of the 1908 Methodist Social Creed declare they stand for "equal rights and complete justice for all men in all stations of life," and for a number of social justice initiatives in the labor market, including the abolition of child labor, regulation of conditions of labor for women, one day off per week, and a living wage.
The writers in these pieces identify a number of serious social problems of their day. Spargo, in…...
Whitney M. Young Jr. was born in 1921 in Lincoln idge Kentucky and lived until 1971. Young is most notably remembered as a black American civil rights leader and administrator of social work, and was considered one of the most influential civil rights leaders in America during the 1960s. His career as a race relations expert began when Young served as a go-between for white officers and African-American enlisted men in a segregated U.S. Army company in Europe during World War II. Young obtained a Master of Arts degree in social work from the University of Minnesota, after which he worked for the Urban League and later became executive secretary at one of the organization's branches. He was named Dean of Atlanta university's School of Social Work when he was only 33, and later became executive director of the National Urban League. In this director position, Young secured training and…...
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Addams included a large amount of environmental reforms in her program for Hull House. One of the most prominent incorporated her labors to address the unhealthful heaps of garbage in immigrant areas because of a lack of public interest. The mayor of Chicago ultimately appointed Addams garbage inspector for her region a job that she took very seriously. Addams managed garbage collectors and took violators of garbage policies to court. Even though Addams and her associates frequently started reforms, the immigrants had a dynamic role as well, helping in knowledge gathering and its communication to their neighbors (Settlement House Movement, 2011).
ichmond's devotion and professionalism, along with her scientific charity has been documented and developed over the years. Her casework practice, managerial talents, research, and stress on social work education fashioned a professional environment in what was beforehand thought to be just charity work. This professionalized social work permitted philanthropic associations…...
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omen in American History
The contribution woman have made to the United States over the years is profoundly important, and probably not recognized to the degree that it should be recognized. This paper reviews and critiques the contributions of women from five periods in history: from 1865 to 1876; from 1877 to 1920; from 1921 to 1945; from 1946 to 1976; and from 1976 to the present day.
omen in America -- 1865 to 1876 -- Sojourner Truth
One of the brightest lights in the movement to free the slaves was Sojourner Truth, likely the best-known person in the abolitionist movement. She was actually very active in the movement to free the slaves before and during the Civil ar, and she helped organize and lead the Underground Railroad movement. The Underground Railroad shepherded runaway slaves away from Southern slave states and up into New York State, Pennsylvania, isconsin, Minnesota and other states that…...
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Settlement Houses
Their Impacts on Immigrants in 19th Century
Amber
Settlement Houses were an attempt of socially reforming the society in the late nineteenth century and the movement related to it was a process of helping the poor in urban areas adopting their modes of life by living among them and serving them while staying with them. What today's youth would know as a Community Center, 'Settlement Houses' initially sprang up in the 1880's? At these facilities, higher educated singles would move to Settlement Houses and get to personally know the neighborhood and immigrant people that they were converting, studying, and/or teaching. Working together, they passed labor laws and changed the way the U.S. does business. Where these educated professionals stayed with the community and served them, the main intent of these reforms was to transfer this responsibility of social welfare to the government in the long-run.
An interesting fact about this settlement house…...
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omen to History
omen have contributed to the history of the world from the beginning of time. Their stories are found in legends, myths, and history books. Queens, martyrs, saints, and female warriors, usually referred to as Amazon omen, writers, artists, and political and social heroes dot our human history. By 1865, women moved into the public arena, as moral reform became the business of women, as they fought for immigrant settlement housing, fought and struggled for the right to earn living wages, and stood up to the threats of the lynch mobs. The years beginning in 1865 is known as the Civil ar era and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution. It was a time of great changes, especially for African-American women such as Harriet Tubman and Sojourner Truth. omen of all races had to fight for equal rights, even the right to vote (http://women.eb.com/women/nineteenth09.html).omenhave indeed 'come a long…...
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Civil War and econstruction1A sense of Christian mission motivated people like Jane Addams to help immigrants in the US. The progressive movement attracted people who were motivated by this desire to do good to their neighbors, to those less fortunate than themselves. Addams and Hull House were a prime example of this: She wished to do things with, not just for, Chicagos Poor (oark). Overall, the movement consisted of urban reformers, and an alignment between the middle class and activists and social workers.To advance the progressive agenda, Theodore oosevelt promoted regulating business to prevent businesses from taking advantage of the poor and the immigrants and children who worked in factories for long hours. Consumer protections were another way he did this, especially after The Jungle was published, which triggered a social response among readers (Filler).2A big portion of the American public and leaders and politicians believed in staying out of…...
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The main Woolworth's store was already on strike, and the Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union (HERE) was threatening to escalate the strike to all of the stores in Detroit." (Cobble, 2003)
Myra had been nicknamed the: "attling elle of Detroit" by media in the Detroit area because Myra is said to have:.." relished a good fight with employers, particularly over the issues close to her heart. A lifelong member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) she insisted, for example, on sending out racially integrated crews from the union's hiring hall, rejecting such standard employer requests as 'black waiters only, white gloves required." (Cobble, 2003) Myra was involved in many more organized protests and strikes and is stated to "consider herself a feminists...outspoken about her commitment to end sex discrimination...lobbied against the ERA until 1972...chaired the national committee against a repeal of women-only state labor…...
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I. Overview of Jane Addams
II. Contributions to Social Work
III. Legacy and Recognition
I. Introduction
II. Body
1. Jane Addams was a pioneering social reformer and activist who made a significant impact on American society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, Addams is best known for founding Hull House in Chicago, a settlement house that provided essential services to immigrant communities and promoted social reform. Addams was a leading figure in the Progressive Era and a vocal advocate for the rights of women, children, immigrants, and the working class. Her work laid the foundation for modern social work and paved the way for important reforms in areas such as....
Jane Addams, a pioneering social worker and advocate for social reform, left an indelible mark on American society. This essay delves into her life, philosophy, and the profound impact she made on the landscape of social justice in the United States.
Born in 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois, Addams was the daughter of a wealthy family. From a young age, she witnessed firsthand the stark contrasts between the privileged and impoverished classes. This experience ignited within her a deep concern for social justice and a desire to alleviate human suffering.
In 1889, Addams moved to Chicago, where she co-founded Hull House, a settlement....
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