Jane Addams

Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American social worker, sociologist and reformer. Called "The mother of Social Work."

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Born in Cedarville, Illinois, she was educated in the U.S. and Europe. She graduated from the Rockford Female Seminary, now called Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois. In 1889 she co-founded (with Ellen Gates Starr) Hull House in Chicago, which was one of the first settlement houses in the United States. Influenced by Toynbee Hall in the East End of London (founded by Samuel Augustus Barnett or Samuel Barnett in 1884), settlement houses like Hull House were a type of welfare house for the neighborhood poor and a center for social reform. She was a member of the American Anti-Imperialist League, American Sociology Association and a founder of both the American Civil Liberties Union and the NAACP.

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