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	Abbott, Grace
		Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 – June 19, 1939) was an educator, author, political lobbyist, and respected social worker who specifically focused on the advancement of child welfare.
		Younger sister to the equally renowned Edith Abbott, Grace was born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1878.
		Grace Abbott’s historical contributions on the behalf of women, children, and immigrants have earned her the recognition as one of the most influential females in American history, including being voted into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1976.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/Grace_Abbott (951 words)

	Edith Abbott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Abbott was known to be a confidant and special consultant to Harry Hopkins, adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
		For this reason, she was known as the "passionate statistician." In her writing, Abbott stressed the importance and the essential need of a public welfare administration, the need for a more humane social welfare system, the responsibility of the state in relation to social problems, and the social aspects of legislation.
		Abbott spent her last years with her brother Arthur in the family home in Grand Island, where she died of pneumonia in 1957.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Edith_Abbott (581 words)

	Grace Abbott - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare.
		Abbott served on several committees and organizations for advancing the societal cause of the child welfare, including the Immigrants' Protective League (1908-1917), Child Labor Division of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1921 to 1934), and was also a member of the Women's Trade Union League.
		Abbott was an author of several sociological texts, including The Immigrant and the Community (1917) and The Child and the State (1938, 2 volumes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Grace_Abbott (283 words)

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		Grace Abbott was an educator, author, and a well-known social reformer during the first half of the twentieth century.
		Abbott received her master of philosophy degree in political science in 1909 from the University of Chicago.
		Grace Abbott Park, a children's playground park in Grand Island, was named in her honor.
	www.nde.state.ne.us /SS/notables/abbottg.html (382 words)

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		Grace Abbott (1878 - 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare.
		While in Chicago, Abbott began her career in social work and took up residency in the well-known Hull House, an urban center for women engaged in early proto- feminism and social reform as well as a safe haven for the poor.
		Abbott served on several committees and organizations for advancing the societal cause of the child welfare, including the Immigrants' Protective League (1908 - 1917), Child Labor Division of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1921 to 1934), and was also a member of the Women's Trade Union League.
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	Edith Abbott
		Her sister, Grace, was born two years later and their lives were intertwined with mutual interests and involvement in the public welfare and federal and state responsibilities involving social problems.
		Abbott was graduated from the University of Nebraska in 1901 and earned her doctoral degree in economics from the University of Chicago in 1905.
		Abbott taught economics at Wellesley College until 1908 when she became Assistant Director of the Research Department of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, which later became part of the University of Chicago, the School of Social Service Administration.
	www.naswfoundation.org /pioneers/a/abbott.htm (288 words)

	Grace Abbott and the U.S. Children's Bureau \| Kriste Lindenmeyer \| OAH Magazine of History
		Preventable diseases became more common as “one third of the nation was ill-clothed, ill-housed, and ill-fed.” But Grace Abbott and her staff were often frustrated by a combination of political factors that hindered progress on children’s issues.
		Grace Abbott states that some people think her “baby carriage” does not belong in the federal parade.
		What does Grace Abbott mean by her statement that some people think the baby carriage “does not belong there at all.
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	Grace Abbott Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Grace Abbott was born and raised in Grand Island, Nebraska.
		Abbott's point-of-view is eloquently summarized in her The Immigrant and the Community (1917).
		Abbott had been appalled to find that infant mortality was higher in the United States than in any country where records were kept, and she was convinced that the best way to reduce that mortality was to improve the health of the mother, before and after child-birth.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/grace-abbott (960 words)

	Kappa Delta Pi - Educational Honor Society
		Grace Abbott (17 November 1878–19 June 1939) contributed to many social and legal issues during the first half of the 20th century, including women’s suffrage, child labor laws, and immigrant assistance.
		As Abbott (1938, 262) noted, “The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.” However, Abbott faced many who opposed child labor laws.
		Abbott taught her students that, before preventative measures could be taken to overcome a problem, the facts of the matter first must be gathered and analyzed.
	www.kdp.org /about/laureates/laureates/graceabbott.php (1113 words)

	Grace Abbott Introduction
		Grace Abbott, social worker and public administrator, was an important member of the social reform movement in Chicago at the turn of the twentieth century.
		Grace Abbott was born November 17, 1878 in Grand Island, Nebraska.
		Grace Abbott’s article “A Study of the Greeks in Chicago,” published in the American Journal of Sociology in 1909, is one of the many articles she wrote exposing the conditions and dangers many immigrants faced as residents in the United States.
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	Abbott, Grace - S9.com
		1930-1931 - Abbott established wide spread support for the position as Secretary of Labor in the President's cabinet and in 1931 she was named one of the "Twelve Greatest Living American Women" in a nation wide poll conducted by a popular women's magazine.
		Abbott's concern for child welfare inspired her to write a book entitled Child and the State.
		1939 - On June 19, 1939, Grace Abbott died in Chicago because of multiple myeloma (is a type of cancer of plasma cells, immune system cells in bone marrow that produce antibodies).
	www.s9.com /Biography/Abbott-Grace (455 words)

	Grace Abbott - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Abbott, Grace (1878-1939), American social worker, devoted to the cause of child welfare.
		She was born in Grand Island, Nebraska, and educated at...
		Grace (religion), in Christian theology, unearned favor, freely bestowed by God on individuals who are thereby redeemed and sanctified.
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	Grace Abbott -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939) was an (A native or inhabitant of the United States) American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare.
		Abbott was born in (additional info and facts about Grand Island, Nebraska) Grand Island, Nebraska.
		She took up residency in the (additional info and facts about Hull House) Hull House, an urban center for women engaged in early proto- (A doctrine that advocates equal rights for women) feminism and social reform, as well as a safe haven for the poor.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/G/Gr/Grace_Abbott.htm (366 words)

	Encyclopedia: Edith Abbott (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		The international movement for womens suffrage, led by suffragists (commonly called suffragettes), was a social, economic and political reform movement aimed at extending the suffrage (that is, the right to vote) to women, advocating equal suffrage (abolition of graded votes) rather than universal suffrage (abolition of discrimination due to...
		Harry Lloyd Hopkins Harry Lloyd Hopkins (August 17, 1890 – January 29, 1946) was one of Franklin Roosevelts closest advisors and one of the key architects of the New Deal.
		Pneumonia (the ancient Greek word for lungs) is defined as an inflamation, usually caused by infection, involving the alveoli of the lungs.
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	Abbott, Grace (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Grace Abbott, chief of the U.S. Children's Bureau of the Department of Labor, viewing a portrait of Julia Lathrop, her predecessor
		She moved to Chicago in 1907, and the next year she became a resident of Hull House, the pioneer settlement house founded by Jane Addams, with whom Abbott was closely associated.
		Abbott was awarded a doctorate in political science by the University of Chicago in 1909.
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		Grace Abbott was the most powerful woman in the United States Government at the time of the Great Depression.
		Grace was important not only to the children of Nebraska, but to the children of the world.
		Grace Abbott, born in Grand Island, Nebraska in 1878, was a woman who put a lot of effort into her job in the government.
	www.gi.esu10.k12.ne.us /Technology/T.I.E./Mangers-Johnson/Abbott%20Sisters/Grace_Abbott.html (386 words)

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		Grace and Edith Abbott were feminists at a time when the very word spelled radical.
		We have to understand that when Grace Abbott was doing her primary work, say for the maternity and infancy act; it was not permitted in public to say the word ‘pregnant’.
		And she also as a final gesture before she passed on commissioned a bronze memorial plaque to Grace, to be placed in her sister’s memory here in the park.
	net.unl.edu /nextexit/faith/grace_03.html (1058 words)

	Grace Abbott
		Abbott strongly objected to proposed legislation, for she believed that immigrants were not different from United States citizens.
		Abbott was very optimistic about the "new immigrants." To help them escape poverty and religious persecution, she wanted to keep the sea ports open to them.
		Abbott improved the lives of numerous people throughout the world because she gave them a safe country for immigration.
	www.lib.niu.edu /ipo/1998/ihy980454.html (565 words)

	School of Social Service Administration \| The University of Chicago
		In 1917, Grace accepted a position as director of the Industrial Division of the Children's Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, where she was responsible for developing enforcement plans for the first federal child labor laws enacted by Congress in 1916.
		From 1922 to 1934, Grace Abbott served as the official representative of the U.S. on the League of Nations' advisory committees on traffic in women and on childwelfare.
		From 1930-31, Grace Abbott received wide-spread popular support for the then vacant position as Secretary of Labor in the President's cabinet and in 1931she was named as one of the twelve greatest living American Women in a nation-wide poll conducted by a popular women's magazine.
	www.ssa.uchicago.edu /aboutssa/history/tour1e.shtml (760 words)

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		Grace Abbott Park is a children's park dedicated to Grace Abbott.
		Grace Abbott was born in 1878 and died in 1939.
		Some things Grace Abbott has are a baseball field, band stand,playground, tennis court, picnic tables and a batting cage.
	www.gips.org /SDGI/WestLawn/studentprojects/promoting%20GI%20/parks/grace_abbott_.htm (60 words)

	Talk:Grace Abbott - New World Encyclopedia Preview
		Grace Abbott was born into a family who pioneered the Western US prairies.
		Grace developed a great concern for the oppressed, and spent her life challenging the social injustices she observed.
		She pioneered reform in child labor, women's rights, and immigrants' rights in an attempt to care for all people as one human family.
	www.newworldencyclopedia.org /preview/Talk:Grace_Abbott (197 words)

	Abbott, Edith
		Edith Abbott, born in Grand Island, Nebraska, on September 26, 1876, was the older sister of Grace Abbott, who would serve as chief of the United States Children's Bureau from 1921 to 1934.
		Abbott became the school's dean in 1924, a post she held until 1942.
		Abbott spent her last years with her brother Arthur in the family home in Grand Island, where she died of pneumonia on July 28, 1957.
	search.eb.com /women/articles/Abbott_Edith.html (442 words)

	Grace Abbott Summary
		Grace Abbott (November 17, 1878 - June 19, 1939) was an American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare.
		Abbott served on several committees and organizations for advancing the societal cause of the child welfare, including the Immigrants' Protective League (1908-1917), Child Labor Division of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1921 to 1934), and was also a member of the Women's Trade Union League.
		Abbott was an author of several sociological texts, including The Immigrant and the Community (1917) and The Child and the State (1938, 2 volumes).
	www.bookrags.com /Grace_Abbott (1225 words)

	NETonline - Next Exit
		Grace and Edith Abbott were feminists at a time when the very word spelled radical.
		We have to understand that when Grace Abbott was doing her primary work, say for the maternity and infancy act; it was not permitted in public to say the word ‘pregnant’.
		And she also as a final gesture before she passed on commissioned a bronze memorial plaque to Grace, to be placed in her sister’s memory here in the park.
	netnebraska.org /extras/nextexit/faith/grace_03.html (1058 words)

	Grace Abbott - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Thunder reigns for Knights: Abbott ignites sweep with heavy hittingLINC.-WAY CENTRAL 6-1, MARIST 2-0.
		Abbott Laboratories accused of inflating drug prices: The government and a tiny Key West pharmacy accuse Abbott Laboratories of wasting taxpayers' money.
		Abbott faces federal lawsuit alleging fraudulent drug pricing.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Abbott-Gr.html (416 words)

	Edith Abbott, Social Service Administration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Although Abbott was committed to rigorous professional training, she retained strong sympathies for the dedicated efforts of settlement house workers.
		Abbott insisted on the juxtaposition because she believed the education of social workers too important to be left to amateurs, however well intentioned.
		Abbott likened the professionally trained social investigator to a surgeon "whose scalpel is to reach deeply."
	www.lib.uchicago.edu /projects/centcat/centcats/fac/facch21_01.html (488 words)

	Today in History: November 17
		Grace Abbott, Chief of the Children's Bureau of the Dept. of Labor, August 24, 1929.
		Grace Abbott was one of many turn-of-the century women striving to ameliorate the social problems arising from industrialization.
		Abbott's friend and colleague Jane Addams countered claims that women should confine their activities to the home by arguing female domestic expertise would improve government.
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