![]() She helped America address and focus on issues that were of concern to mothers, such as the needs of children, local public health, and world peace. In the Progressive Era, when presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers. She was a radical pragmatist and arguably the first woman "public philosopher" in the United States. Īn advocate for world peace, and recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States, in 1931 Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. ![]() In 1920, she was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary master of arts degree from Yale University, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school. Addams co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. ![]() She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States. Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. Source Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p. Portrait of Jane Addams, from a Charcoal drawing by Alice Kellogg Tyler of 1892. ![]()
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