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	Jane Addams - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Born in Cedarville, Illinois, Jane Addams was educated in the United States and Europe, graduating from the Rockford Female Seminary (now Rockford College) in Rockford, Illinois.
		Addams was a friend and colleague to the early members of the Chicago School of Sociology, influencing their thought through her work in applied sociology and, in 1893, co-authoring the Hull-House Maps and Papers that came to define the interests and methodologies of the School.
		Addams had a stellar reputation for her work with Hull House, and was respected as a committed humanitarian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jane_Addams (604 words)

	Jane Addams
		Jane oversaw the cleanup of area streets for only a matter of months before giving the job to Hull House resident Amanda Johnson, but she was thrust into the national spotlight for taking a stand against corrupt politicians.
		Jane had always believed women should vote, but did not focus on the issue early on in her philanthropic career because she believed there were too many other issues that needed attention.
		Jane Addams is one of the 10 greatest citizens of this republic.
	ball.tcnj.edu /pols370/addams.htm (2552 words)

	Jane Addams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Addams, who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, remained president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom until her death on 21st May, 1935.
		Jane Addams is a woman of indomitable energy and persistence, of enthusiasm and adaptability; intellectually she is strong and possesses a keen sense of a humour.
		Jane Addams' funeral in the Hull House courtyard.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USAaddams.htm (4488 words)

	Jane Addams
		Jane Addams's concern for humanity is reflected in her writings: Democracy and Social Ethics (1912), Newer Ideals of Peace (1907), Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910), The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House (1930), The Excellent Becomes the Permanent (1932).
		Jane Addams liked to remember that her father had never locked his doors; the doors of Hull-House were always open to the world.
		Jane Addams had many talents, but none more remarkable than her ability to work from the immediate to the general, from practical problems to philosophy and even from the local to the national and the international.
	www.nl.edu /academics/cas/ace/resources/addams.cfm (1756 words)

	American Experience \| Chicago: City of the Century \| People & Events
		Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois in 1860.
		Addams became an internationally known advocate for the underclass and a leader at a time of growing progressive movements, advocating for the National Federation of Settlements, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the National American Women Suffrage Association, and the American Civil Liberties Union.
		Addams died in 1935, and was buried in Cedarville.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/chicago/peopleevents/p_addams.html (636 words)

	Jane Addams biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement.
		Jane is portrayed as the selfless giver of ministrations to the poor, but few realize that she was a mover and shaker in the areas of labor reform (laws that governed working conditions for children and women), and was a charter member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
		Jane's parents decided that the best course was to take Jane and her friends on a grand tour of Europe for a year or two.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/adda-jan.htm (1301 words)

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		Jane Addams graduated as valedictorian from Rockford Female Seminary (Illinois) in 1881, and was granted a Bachelor of Arts degree in June 1882.
		During the next forty years that Jane Addams resided there, Hull-House was to assume international significance as Addams and her associates championed the protection of immigrants, child labor laws and recreation facilities for children, industrial safety, juvenile courts, recognition of labor unions, woman suffrage, and world peace.
		Jane Addams died of cancer on May 21, 1935 and was buried in Cedarville, Illinois.
	www.swarthmore.edu /library/peace/Exhibits/janeaddams/addamsindex.htm (600 words)

	Open Collections Program: Women Working: Jane Addams
		Jane Addams became one of the country's most prominent women through her settlement work, her writing, and later, as an international activist for world peace.
		The eighth of nine children, Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois and graduated from Rockford College in 1882.
		Addams was attacked for her public opposition to the war and was expelled from the Daughters of the American Revolution.
	ocp.hul.harvard.edu /ww/people_addams.html (939 words)

	Legacy of Jane Addams
		Addams was given the award not only for playing a significant role by lending a helping hand in worldwide disarmament following World War I, but also for her plans to found settlement houses, most notably Hull House, founded in 1889 inside of a rundown mansion in Chicago Illinois.
		Jane Addams was born in 1860 to a family full of politics and altruism, living in Cedarville, Illinois.
		Addams was unique not because she was helping the poor, charity was not unheard of, but because of all that she gave up to come and live and help in the slums of Chicago.
	home.pacbell.net /whainc/tmp_addams.htm (1309 words)

	Lesson Plan - Jane Addams
		Jane had a very compassionate heart from the time she was a young girl.
		Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in Cedarville, Illinois.
		Jane went to Philadelphia to go to medical school and because she worked so hard she became ill and a pain in her back, from her childhood returned.
	teacherlink.ed.usu.edu /tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/JANEADDA.html (2289 words)

	Women's History-Jane Addams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Jane Addams was almost seven years old when she first sensed that city life was not all ice-cream cones and visits to the toy store.
		The daughter of a well-to-do Illinois businessman, Jane often went with her father on his trips to the mills that he owned.
		Her mother died when Jane was two; later, a bout with tuberculosis left the girl with a deformed spine.
	teacher.scholastic.com /researchtools/articlearchives/womhst/jane.htm (1271 words)

	Jane Addams on Cultural Feminism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Addams was, and remains, one of the most articulate and sophisticated theorists of cultural feminism.
		Addams emphasized the problems of the city and the dislocation of minorities: the poor, the aged, the immigrant, the young, and women.
		Addams was a public leader because she acted on her vision of a new world, while Thomas was an intellectual leader because he systematically described his vision of the present.
	www2.pfeiffer.edu /~lridener/DSS/Addams/CULTFEM3.HTML (1838 words)

	History of Education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Basic to the philosophy of education that Addams developed during the forty-four years she lived at Hull-House was a vision of society in which all people, regardless of race, gender or socioeconomic status, would have a chance to develop individual talents and interests.
		Jane Addams was a vital part of the progressive education movement that rose at the dawn of the twentieth century.
		Addams was the author of eleven books and numerous articles on a variety of subjects including education, settlement life, industrial conditions, juvenile justice, woman suffrage, civil rights, municipal reform and planning, immigration and ethnicity, child welfare, and international peace.
	fcis.oise.utoronto.ca /~daniel_schugurensky/assignment1/1931addams.html (1471 words)

	Alumna Jane Addams
		As Jane Addams’ college in the 21st century, we seek to create a world that is more just, more humane, and more democratic.
		Jane Addams began her lifelong crusade for justice and equality not long after she graduated from Rockford College when, in 1889, she established Hull-House in Chicago.
		As a social reformer, Jane was a force to be reckoned with.
	www.rockford.edu /aboutrc/jane.asp (362 words)

	Jane Addams - Biography
		In 1881 Jane Addams was graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary, the valedictorian of a class of seventeen, but was granted the bachelor's degree only after the school became accredited the next year as Rockford College for Women.
		In 1905 she was appointed to Chicago's Board of Education and subsequently made chairman of the School Management Committee; in 1908 she participated in the founding of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy and in the next year became the first woman president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections.
		Jane Addams was an ardent feminist by philosophy.
	nobelprize.org /peace/laureates/1931/addams-bio.html (1156 words)

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		Jane’s mother died when she was two, so she was raised at first by an older sister and then by Anna Haldeman, her stepmother.
		Jane idolized him to the point that she would sometimes refuse to walk downtown beside him for fear that people would wonder how such a tall, handsome gentleman could be related to such a skinny, pigeon-toed “ugly duckling.” As Jane grew, her curved spine straightened and she developed into a beautiful, serious, gentle young woman.
		Jane Addams was an extraordinary women for her times, She was often criticized for being too involved with immigrants and the poor.
	www.saratogahigh.org /shs/departments/staffpages/mdavey/usnew/prog/JaneAddams.doc (2794 words)

	US Political Thought, Notes on Jane Addams and Hull House
		Jane Addams came from a prosperous family that lived in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois.
		It is also notable that Addams uses the experience of girls to epitomize that of youth in general, reversing the norm of using universalizing the experience of men and boys.
		On the contrary, it treated society itself as the “domestic sphere,” beginning with the neighborhood and reaching outward, and it enabled settlement activists (who were primarily women) to reinvent social reform as the expression of an expanded sense of familial love and care, of familial conviviality, of neighborliness, and of household management.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~jboland/addams_h.html (928 words)

	Jane Addams and informal education
		Jane Addams (1869-1935) is, perhaps, best known as a pioneering social worker and social activist, however she was also a committed internationalist and critical intellectual.
		Jane Addams saw education as the foundation for democracy.
		Jane Addams' (1910) discussion of the educational contribution of social settlements - Chapter XVIII of Twenty Years at Hull House.
	www.infed.org /thinkers/et-addams.htm (220 words)

	Hull-House CEO
		Laura Jane Addams, born in 1860 in Illinois, was a descendant of Quakers.
		Jane Addams is the first and only social worker to win the Noble Peace Prize for her dove philosophies.
		Jane wrote 10 books and over 200 articles, gave hundreds of speeches and was awarded honorary degrees from thirteen universities, including being the first woman to to receive an honorary degree from Yale.
	xroads.virginia.edu /~HYPER/INCORP/Hull-House/jane.html (996 words)

	Jane Addams
		Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860, in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois, one of eight children.
		In 1877, Jane attended the Rockville Female Seminary where she learned to write and speak with authority, traits that would come in handy during her later years.
		When Jane returned to the United States, she traveled to Chicago and turned an old mansion there into a settlement house called Hull House which she used in order to care for children, give medical care, and try to clean up the disease-causing waste on the city streets.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/addams.html (503 words)

	About Jane Addams
		From Hull-House, where she lived and worked until her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country's most prominent woman through her writing, settlement work, and international efforts for peace.
		Jane Addams and the Hull-House residents provided kindergarten and day care facilities for the children of working mothers; an employment bureau; an art gallery; libraries; English and citizenship classes; and theater, music and art classes.
		Jane Addams wrote prolifically on topics related to Hull-House activities, producing eleven books and numerous articles as well as maintaining an active speaking schedule nationwide and throughout the world.
	www.uic.edu /jaddams/hull/newdesign/ja.html (717 words)

	Welcome to Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
		The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is a historic site and memorial to Jane Addams, her innovative settlement house programs and associates, and the neighborhood they served.
		Restored by the University of Illinois at Chicago in the mid-1960s, the Mansion and Residents' Dining Hall are all that remain of the original thirteen-building Hull-House complex.
		Jane Addams Hull-House Museum, University of Illinois at Chicago.
	wall.aa.uic.edu:62730 /artifact/HullHouse.asp (275 words)

	Jane Addams, Vol. 2 # 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Addams and others from Hull House lobbied for passage of the 1903 child labor law and for mandatory school attendance laws, which helped get children out of the work force and into schools.
		Addams health began to decline in 1931 after she underwent surgery and suffered a heart attack.
		Jane Addams remains one of the most influential and well-known women of her generation.
	www.state.il.us /hpa/lib/edservices/JaneAddams.htm (983 words)

	Jane Addams - MSN Encarta
		Jane Addams (1860-1935), American social reformer and Nobel laureate, born in Cedarville, Illinois, and educated at Rockford Female Seminary and Women's Medical College and in Europe.
		In 1889, with Ellen Starr, Addams established Hull House in Chicago, one of the first settlement houses in the U.S. Addams played a prominent part in the formation of the National Progressive Party in 1912 and of the Woman's Peace Party, of which she became chairperson in 1915.
		She was elected (1915) president of the International Congress of Women at The Hague, Netherlands, and president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, which was established by The Hague congress.
	encarta.msn.com /encnet/refpages/RefArticle.aspx?refid=761553529 (208 words)

	Jane Addams, Mother of Social Work - Her Life of Activism from Cedarville to Hull House
		Oh yes, it was Jane Addams alright, and those who neglected the poor, took advantage of minorities and believed in an all-male ruling class had reason to fear.
		Jane was blessed with a father whom she adored and who impressed her with the virtues of tolerance, philanthropy and a strong work ethic.
		Originally published in 1910, this recounting by Jane Addams of her first twenty years (1899-1909) running the settlement house that served the poor and became a center for social reform has been called one of the most important book written.
	www.johnshepler.com /articles/janeaddams.html (1438 words)

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