Jane Addams

Also known as Laura Jane Addams, Jane Laura Addams

American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935)

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Jane Addams was an American social activist and reformer who worked as a social worker, sociologist, and writer during the late 1800s and early 1900s, and was also a prominent feminist. She matters because she helped pioneer social work and reform movements while advocating for women's rights during a transformative period in American history.

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Born: 1860
Died: 1935
Works: 178

Top works

Women at the Hague
My friend, Julia Lathrop
The long road of woman's memory
Female Peace Palace
New Conscience and an Ancient Evil

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Listeners: 27
Total plays: 51

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5 total works indexed

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Quotes

“The cure for the ills of Democracy is more Democracy.”
“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”
“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”
“I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father’s had become, during his earlier years of a miller’s life.”
“I dreamed night after night that everyone in the world was dead excepting myself, and that upon me rested the responsibility of making a wagon wheel.”

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Commons category: Jane Addams
date of birth: 1860-01-01
date of death: 1935-05-22
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name in native language: Jane Addams
birth name: Laura Jane Addams

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Portrait of Jane Addams, from a charcoal drawing in 1892 by Alice Kellogg Tyler. Source: Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p. 114 Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage. In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Philosophically a "radical pragmatist", she was arguably the first woman public philosopher in the United States. In the Progressive Era, when even presidents such as Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson identified themselves as reformers and might be seen as social activists, Addams was one of the most prominent reformers.

An advocate for world peace, and recognized as the founder of the social work profession in the United States, in 1931 Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the win with Nicholas Murray Butler. Earlier, Addams was awarded an honorary Master of Arts degree from Yale University in 1910, becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school. In 1920, she was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).