61. JANE ADDAMS The name jane addams had many epithets jane's pacifism and political involvement,led to her expulsion from But in 1931, the nobel Prize committee viewed jane's http://www.volunteerpathway.org/honorees/addams.html

JANE ADDAMS Founder of Hull-House, a settlement residence for needy immigrants and active suffrage advocate, Jane Addams dedicated her wealth and talent to bring about systemic change. She advocated for issues affecting the poor; such as child labor laws and reduction of work hours and she sought to give women the right to vote. For 40 years she dedicated herself to remedying the causes of poverty and injustice. "Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world." Jane Addams Born September 6, 1860 Cedarville, Illinois Died May 21, 1935 Chicago, Illinois Chicago in the late 1800's was inhabited by two groups of people - the poor and the wealthy. Born into a life of comfort, Laura Jane "Jennie" Addams chose to utilize her wealth and talents to benefit the less fortunate. On September 18, 1889, at the age of 29, along with Ellen Gates Starr, a college friend, she established Hull-House, the first social settlement, in Chicago, to serve the needy. Recognized as being the first location for community based service centers in America, this structure is now a National and Chicago Historic Landmark signifying the achievements of Jane Addams.

62. African Americans - Jane Addams - Founder Of NAACP taken to Cedarville to be buried. Additional Resources jane addamsHull House Association; jane addams biography nobel e-Museum; http://www.africanamericans.com/JaneAddams.htm

Jane Addams - Founder of NAACP Date of Birth: 1860 Place of Birth: Cedarville, Illinois Date of Death: 1935 Place of Death: Chicago, Illinois Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement. She and her friend Ellen Starr founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago in 1889. She is also remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. 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 founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Jane grew up in the small community of Cedarville, Illinois. She was the daughter of a very well-to-do gentleman; her mother was a kind and gracious lady. Jane had five brothers and sisters at the time of her mother's death, when Jane was two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought two new step-brothers to the already large family. 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. Perhaps Jane would settle down and realize that her duty was to marry and have a family. Jane began to show signs of serious illness during this time. Was her health affected by stress? There was the pressure to do her parents' bidding, and inner turmoil over whether or not to disobey them and choose a career.

63. Jane Addams Bookstore Women's Peace Party during World War I. As a result of her life long commitment,jane addams became the first American woman to receive the nobel Peace Prize http://www.janeaddamsbooks.com/jane_addams_bio.html

We Buy Books Search Forms Gallery Newsletter Laura Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in Cedarville, Illinois. From a young age she had a selfless desire to help others and needed only to learn how to reach those in need. On a trip to England she visited Toynbee Hall, one of the first settlement houses. Addams took home with her the idea of an institution placed in and devoted to a poor neighborhood. On September 18, 1889 Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull House in Chicago. An old mansion was restored and open for use by the local poor and recently immigrated. Addams and Starr cared for the children of working parents and taught classes. They fought for the rights of the city's poor, aiding to change child labor laws and safety standards. These early acheivements developed the role of the social worker as we know it. She went on to form the Women's Peace Party during World War I. As a result of her life long commitment, Jane Addams became the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize , awarded in 1931.

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Jane Addams Baroness Bertha Felicie Sophie von Suttner was the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize in 1905. In fact, her work inspired the creation of the Prize. Jane Addams, the Peacemaker Jane Addams's reputation gradually was restored during the last years of her life. She continued to run Hull House and work on other peacemaking activities. Addams was president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and traveled overseas to meet with officials of other nations to persuade them of the importance of working to preserve world peace. Addams was rewarded for her efforts in 1931 with the Nobel Peace Prize. The prize is awarded annually by a committee in Norway to those who have made major contributions to world peace efforts. She was the first American woman to win this prize. There are many women today who have followed Addams's lead. Do you know any of them? page 2 of 3 Home Meet Amazing Americans Jane Addams Peacemaker ... Site Map

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Barýþa Adanmýþ Bir Ömür: Jane Addams Feminist, enternasyonalist, iflah olmaz bir savaþ karþýtý ve Nobel Barýþ ödülü sahibi Amerikalý bir kadýn. Barýþ, kadýn, çocuk, iþçi sýnýfý, göçmenler her þey onun ilgi alanýnda. 1. Dünya Savaþý'ný durdurmaya çalýþtý, bugünü o günden gördü. BÝA Haber Merkezi Nadire MATER mater@bianet.org BÝA (Ýstanbul) - "Hanýmlar, biz geleceðin muhafýzlarýyýz. Artýk, hayatýmýzýn saygýsýzca yok edilmesine izin vermeyeceðiz. Uluslararasý iliþkiler zorla deðil, dostluk ve adaletle belirlenmelidir." Hauge' da Amerika Birleþik Devletleri (ABD) ve Avrupa ülkelerinden gelen 1500 kadýn kürsüde konuþan 55 yaþýndaki yol arkadaþlarýnýn öfkeli ve kararlý konuþmasýný dinliyordu. Hepsi de, savaþý durdurmak, barýþ ve nihayetinde Uluslararasý Barýþ ve Özgürlük için Kadýn Derneði' ni kurmak için oradaydý. Yýl, aylardan Mayýs. 1. Dünya Savaþý günleri... Komünist, anarþist ve hain Konuþan kadýn, yani Amerikan basýnýn "Komünist", "anarþist", "hain" ; savaþ karþýtlarýnýn ise "enternasyonalist", "feminist ", "adalet ve varýþ savunucusu"

66. Biography Of Jane Addams In recognition of her efforts, jane addams was awarded the 1931 nobel PeacePrize. Recommended Reading Twenty Years at HullHouse , by jane addams. http://www.ushistory.net/toc/addams.html

Click Here to Visit our Sponsor Jane Addams was one of many reformers dedicated to social change at the turn of the century. Her primary contribution was the founding and managing of a settlement house called Hull House. Hull House was founded in 1889 in the slums of Chicago. A settlement house was a means to mitigate the harsh conditions of poverty found in the cities. The house would be staffed by trained social workers who also lived in the house. These workers would do whatever they could to help their neighbors. They would educate them through lectures and providing books, they would care for the children, they would honor and care for the elderly. They pushed for legislative reforms like child labor laws and clean streets. They did what they could to facilitate the integration of immigrants into the United States, and above all they provided a place for people to get together just to socialize. In recognition of her efforts, Jane Addams was awarded the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Recommended Reading: Twenty Years at Hull-House , by Jane Addams Other resources on the net: Democracy or Militarism by Jane Addams Site design by Swift Technologies Contact at donna@swiftdesign.com

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Free Web space and hosting - freehomepage.com Jane Addams 6 SEP 1860 - 21 MAY 1935 Click Here to go Back to the Reformers Page Jane Addams is remembered primarily as a founder of the Settlement House Movement. She and her friend Ellen Starr founded Hull House in the slums of Chicago in 1889. She is also remembered as the first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize. Few realize that she was also a advocate in the areas of labor reform, laws that governed working conditions for children and women and was a founder of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People). In 1893 a severe depression rocked the country. Hull House was serving over two thousand people a week. As the charitable efforts increased, so too did political ones. Jane realized that there would be no end to poverty and need if the laws could not be changed. She directed her efforts at the causes of poverty. The workers joined Jane in pressuring the state of Illinois to look at the laws governing child labor, the laws for the factory inspection system, the juvenile justice system; they worked for legislation to protect immigrants from exploitation, limit the working hours of women, mandate schooling for children , recognize labor unions and provide for industrial safety. She became a very controversial figure while working on behalf of economic reform. When the awful working conditions turned into the

68. Nobel Prizes report in alphabetic order; if you click upon a name you will be connected withrelative page of nobel Prizes Archive. Name, Year Awarded. addams, jane, 1931. http://web.tiscali.it/no-redirect-tiscali/LG_WebPace/nobel.htm

Nobel Prize Archive Nobel Prizes on-line Museum A LFRED N OBEL founder of the Nobel Prizes. October 21, 1833-December 10, 1896 Place of birth: Stockholm, Sweden The Nobel Prize Internet Archive is fully interactive. If you have an interesting and useful Internet link about a particular Nobel Laureate, you can add your link instantly to that laureate's home page here at the Archive. What Nobel e-Museum Offers Nobel e-Museum offers information on all 736 Prize Winners to date, the Nobel Organization, Alfred Nobel, and Nobel events, as well as educational material and games. Nobel e-Museum consists of more than 9,000 static documents, several databases and a number of multimedia productions with Nobel Prize connection. Here is Nobel Prizes report in alphabetic order; if you click upon a name you will be connected with relative page of Nobel Prizes Archive. Name Year Awarded Addams, Jane The American Friends Service Committee Amnesty International Annan, Kofi ... MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES (showcase) (U.S. Site)

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Archivio dei Premi Nobel Museo On-line del Premio Nobel A LFRED N OBEL Alfred Nobel fondatore del Premio Nobel. 21 ottobre 1833 -10 dicembre 1896 luogo di nascita: Stockholm, Sweden L'archivio internet dei Premi Nobel è completamente interattivo. Se avete un link interessante e molto usato circa una particolare personalità insignita del Nobel, potete aggiungere qui in-linea quel link. Cosa offre l'e-museo? L'e-museo offre informazioni aggiornate su tutti i 736 vincitori del Premio, l'Organizzazione Nobel, Alfred Nobel, gli eventi e così pure materiale educativo e giochi. L'e-museo Nobel consta di più di 9.000 documenti statici, diversi data base ed un gran numero di produzioni multimediali connessi ai Premi Nobel. Di seguito riportiamo l'elenco alfabetico dei Premi Nobel; cliccando sui singoli nomi è possibile connettersi alle relative pagine dell'Archivio dei Premi Nobel Name Anno di conferimento Addams, Jane The American Friends Service Committee Amnesty International Annan, Kofi ... Wilson, Thomas Woodrow in particolare sito ufficiale di MEDICI SENZA FRONTIERE - MSF ITALIA raggiungibile con la posta elettronica all'indirizzo: msf@msf.it

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Hoover Home About Hoover Research Publications ... Involvement ARCHIVES: To Benefit Mankind Cissie Dore Hill Jane Addams, 1860–1935 Cissie Dore Hill is the exhibits coordinator of the Hoover Institution Archives. Return to the full article Jane Addams, 1860–1935 Jane Addams—pioneer social worker, feminist, and internationalist—represented the peace movement in the United States. She was awarded the peace prize in 1931. In 1889, Addams opened Hull House, an institution dedicated to improving the lives of Chicago’s working poor. Two thousand people a week used its services, which included kindergarten and adult classes, a public kitchen, swimming pool, circulating library, employment bureau, gym-nasium, art studio, and music school. Addams was a member of the Board of Education, president of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections and held various other civic posts. In 1910, she received the first honorary doctoral degree awarded to a woman by Yale University. Aspiring to rid the world of war, Addams spoke, taught, and published on peace in America and abroad, accepting in 1915 the chair of the Woman’s Peace Party and later that year the presidency of the International Congress of Women, which met at The Hague. It included 1,100 women from 11 countries, whose mission was to formulate a plan for ending World War I. The congress called for a scientific commission of experts from neutral countries, appointed by their governments, to act as a perpetual court of mediation, continually offering proposals to the belligerents without assigning war guilt. Addams headed a delegation from the congress to approach the foreign ministers of each of the belligerents to offer the women’s proposal for ending the war. Despite their efforts, the war continued for three more years.

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Jane Addams Hawaii University Collection. Hoover Institution Library and Archives. Jane Addams, pioneer social worker, feminist, and internationalist, received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. The exhibit includes a letter she wrote to Stanford's first president, David Starr Jordan, on the eve of her departure for The Hague, where a group of American and European women were meeting to plan a strategy for ending World War I.

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Hotel Reservations Cruise Reservations Airline Reservations Vacation Reservations ... Build a Vacation Photo Courtesy University of Illinois Jane Addams Hull-House Museum Written by Julie Greiner The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum is located at 800 South Halsted Street on the University of Illinois campus. The Hull-House Museum commemorates the work of social welfare pioneer and peace advocate Jane Addams, her settlement house associates, their innovative programs and the neighborhood they served. The museum is in an original Hull-House building which is preserved and operated by the University of Illinois. History of Hull House The Hull Mansion was built in 1856 by Charles J. Hull and was occupied by Jane Addams in 1889. The furnishings are original and depict the history of the settlement and the work of its residents. Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Dr. Alice Hamilton, Julia Lathrop, Ellen Gates Starr, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Grace and Edith Abbott were among the residents. They provided services for the neighborhood, such as kindergarten and daycare facilities for children of working mothers, an employment bureau, an art gallery, libraries and music and art classes. Among the projects that they launched were the Immigrant's Protective League, The Juvenile Protective Association, the first juvenile court in the nation and a Juvenile Psychopathic Clinic (later called the Institute for Juvenile Research). Jane Addams Jane Addams (1860 - 1935) was born in Cedarville, Illinois in 1860, graduated from Rockford College in 1882 and founded the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chicago's Near West Side in 1889. Jane Addams became the country's most prominent woman through her writings, settlement work and international efforts for world peace. She produced eleven books, was an active worldwide speaker, the founder of the Chicago Federation of Settlements in 1894, helped to establish the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers in 1911, chairman of the Labor Committee of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, vice-president of the Campfire Girls, on the executive board of the National Playground Association, the National Child Labor Committee

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75. CCBC: Jane Addams Book Award jane addams was the first American woman to win the nobel Peace Prize, whichshe received in 1931. jane addams Children's Book Award Winners. http://www.ux1.eiu.edu/~cfjab/jaddams.htm

Jane Addams Book Award: Children's Books that Build for Peace The Jane Addams Children's Book Award has been presented annually since 1953 by the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Jane Addams Peace Association to the children's book of the preceding year that most effectively promotes the cause of peace, social justice and world community. A national committee of people concerned with children's books and their social values is responsible for making the choices each year. Books may be submitted by the publishers or requested by the committee. Books for preschool through high school ages are eligible, including translations or titles published in English in other countries. Beginning in 1993, a Picture Book category was added to the award. Announcement of the award is made each fall on the anniversary of Jane Addams' birth date, September 6. The award winning author receives a hand-illuminated scroll; silver seals are placed on the book jacket by the publisher. Honor books may also be chosen; honor scrolls are awarded to books that merit this recognition. The Jane Addams Peace Association (777 United Nations Plaza, New York, NY 10017) was founded in 1948 "to foster a better understanding between the people of the world toward the end that wars may be avoided and a more lasting peace enjoyed." It is the educational affiliate of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, founded in 1915 with Jane Addams as its first president. Jane Addams was the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which she received in 1931.

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Jane Addams Mary McDowell and Jane Addams, 1917. McDowell worked with Addams at Hull-House and was a fellow peace activist. Her close contact with the immigrant community around Hull-House gave her insight into the larger world and she came out strongly against World War I. She organized the International Congress of Women, which met at the Hague in the Netherlands in 1915. Their agenda was to avert war. When this failed, Addams fell under criticism and was even expelled from the Daughters of the American Revolution. She fought on, however, and became the first president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, an organization formed in the wake of the meeting at the Hague. Jane Addams received the Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia University) in 1931. She died of cancer four years later and thousands turned out for the funeral service in the courtyard of Hull-House. Jane Addams and friend, Miss Elizabeth Burke in 1911. Continue Jane Addams Ida B. Wells

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JANE ADDAMS Jane Addams is known for Hull House, located in Chicago, IL. While this isn't her only contribution to society during her life, this is the one contribution that has probably made the biggest impact on society. Jane became interested in social issues when she went on a trip to Englan Jane Addams and her impact on society Note! The sentences in this essay are shuffled, making this essay unusable If you want to read the essay in it's original and proper state, click here. We use this page for our internal search engine, and it's not meant to be viewable. Sociology Home Essays [LOGIN] ... 1995-2003, Loadstone

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Library Resources for WMN140 Women in American History Finding Articles in Magazines, Journals and Newspapers ProQuest Direct Database SIRS Knowledge Source Ethnic NewsWatch Contemporary Authors (for writers) http://dept.sccd.ctc.edu/nslib/ Click on Research Databases. (See guide in this handout for help in searching ProQuest Reference Books American women: fifteen hundred biographies REF CT3260.W56 1973 American women sculptors REF NB236.R8 1990 Atlas of American women REF G1201.E1S5 1987 Black American writers : bibliographical essays REF PS153.N5B55 Black Women in America : an Historical Encyclopedia REF E185.86.B542 1993 Concise glossary of feminist theory REF HQ1115.A53 1997 Dictionary of women artists REF N8354.D53 1997 Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History REF E185.E54 1996 Encyclopedia of American social history REF HN57.E58 1993 Encyclopedia of feminism REF HQ1115.T87 1986 Encyclopedia of Multiculturalism REF E184.A1E58 1994 Encyclopedia of women and world religion REF BL458.E53 1999 International dictionary of women's biography REF CT3202.I57 1982

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EMILY GREENE BALCH: THE FIRST QUAKER NOBEL PEACE PRIZE WINNER By Irwin Abrams This essay appeared in the December 1996 issue of Friends Journal As Friends begin to think about how to commemorate in 1997 the 50th anniversary of the Nobel Peace Prize that was shared by the AFSC and the British Friends Service Council in 1947, it is well to be reminded that 1996 is the 50th anniversary of the prize which the Quaker Emily Greene Balch, the leader of the Womens's International League for Peace and Freedom, shared with John Mott of the YMCA in 1946. She was only the third woman to win the prize, after Baroness Bertha von Suttner in 1901 and Jane Addams in 1931. Emily Balch (1867-1961), raised as a Unitarian, joined Friends in 1920 when she was in Geneva establishing the international headquarters of the WILPF. She applied to London Yearly Meeting, preferring to avoid the divisions of American Quakerism. What attracted her to Friends was not only "their testimony against war, their creedless faith, nor their openness to suggestions for far-reaching social reform," It was "the dynamic force of the active love through which their religion was expressing itself in multifarious ways, both during and after the war." When she returned to live in Wellesley in her last years, she transferred her membership to Cambridge (Massachusetts) Meeting. In 1915 Emily Balch was already a distinguished social scientist when she joined Jane Addams and the intrepid international band of women who vainly attempted to stop World War I by persuading statesmen of both neutral and belligerent states to agree to a mediation process.. She then tried to prevent American intervention in the conflict and continued her opposition after the United States entered the war. This brought about her dismissal from Wellesley College, ending a teaching career of twenty years. She continued to work for peace for the rest of her life, both through WILPF and individually, She was granted the Nobel prize as the acknowledged dean and intellectual leader of the United States peace movement.

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