Jane Addams

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Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860. From there she went on to graduate from Rockford College in 1882. After college she moved to the city of Chicago. She set up house in the West Side. It was there that she opened her Hull House, with Ellen Gates Starr. In 1892, Jane Addams became a garbage inspector for the West Side. 1903 brought Addams to become vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League. In 1909, Addams helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). In 1931, Addams becomes the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. Finally in 1935, Jane addams died in a Cedarville hospital at the age of 75.

Addam's funeral

“America’s future will be determined by the home and the school. The child becomes largely what it is taught, hence we must watch what we teach
it, and how we live before it.”
“The excellent becomes the permanent.”
“The new growth in the plant swelling against the sheath, which at the same time imprisons and protects it, must still be the truest type of
progress.”
“Old-fashioned ways which no longer apply to changed conditions are a snare in which the feet of women have always become readily entangled.”
“Social advance depends as much upon the process through which it is secured as upon the result itself.”

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The Hull House

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