Jane Addams and

Hull House

Joyce ChowXuyen UngMariah James

Settlement Houses• First social settlements established in

1880s in London to help with problems caused by urbanization, immigration, and industrialization.

• Their “residents” were usually educated and middle- or upper-class, native born, men and women.

• The residents settled in poor urban neighborhoods.

Hull House• Established in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates

Starr in Chicago’s Near West Side. • Became a world famous social settlement. • Residents of Hull House included: -Jane Addams -Ellen Gates Starr -Florence Kelley -Dr. Alice Hamilton -Julia Lathrop

-Sophonisba Breckenridge -Grace and Edith Abbott

Hull House in 1996

Services They Provided

• Kindergarten and day care• Employment bureau• Art gallery• Libraries• English and citizenship classes• Theater, music, and art classes• Later, more clubs and activities were

added.

Children playing in Hull House

The settlement house included:

public kitchen

a coffee house

a gymnasium

a swimming poolCoffee house

clubhouse for girls

book bindery

art studio

a library

employment bureau

Library

Hull House community consisted of eighteen national groups:

Italian

Greek

Mexican

British

Scandinavian

Polish

German

Russian

Czechoslovakian

French

Lithuanian

Hungarian

Swiss

Rumanian

Yugoslavian

Belgian

Finnish

Dutch

A music school was introduced along with a successful theater.

Plays were performed by residents from the neighborhood.

Some plays plots included the importance of women in history.

Jane Addams: Organizations• A founder of the Chicago Federation of Settlements

(1894) and of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers (1911).

• A leader in the Consumers League• First woman president of the National Conference of

Charities and Corrections. • Chair of the Labor Committee of the General Federation

of Women’s Clubs• Vice president of the Campfire Girls• Member of the executive boards of the National

Playground Association and the National Child Labor Committee

• Supported campaign for woman suffrage and racial equality

Jane Addams, cont.• Wrote on topics related to Hull

House and spoke nationwide and throughout the world.

• Became involved in peace movement in early 20th century.

• Helped form the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and was its first president.

• Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.

Effects of Jane Addams’ Work

• At one point, around 2,000 people visited Hull House each week.

• Labor reforms

• Better care for the poor

Jane Addams on U.S. postage stamp

of 1940

• 1860 -- Born in Cedarville, Illinois • 1877 -- Enters Rockford Female Seminary

• 1889 -- Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr

• 1894 -- Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements

• 1903 -- Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League

• 1905-08 -- Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education

• 1909 -- Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

• 1910 -- Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House

• 1913 -- Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, Budapest, Hungary

• 1915 -- Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman • 1919 -- Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serves as President 1919-29

• 1928 -- Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Union in Hawaii

• 1931 -- 1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

• 1935 -- Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois

• studied medicine for 6 years• discovered Toynbee Hall in London• founded Hull House in Chicago with Ellen Gates Starr • spoke and wrote widely about settlement work • was a leader in the woman’s suffrage and pacifist

movements • believed that women should make their voices heard in

legislation and therefore should have the right to vote • first American Woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize

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