Jane+Addams

=    =  ** Jane Addams is getting ready for the Noble Peace Prize Honoring ** Sex--- Female Birthday--- Sept. 6th 1860 Hometown--- Cedarville, Illinois Political Views--- Progressive Party Religious Views--- Raised as a Quaker, attended Unitarian Church services or the Ethical Culture Society Family Members--- 5 brothers and sisters, 2 step brothers Relationship Status--- Single Interested in/Looking for--- Interested in men, not looking for anyone Calendar Events--- Noble Peace Prize Honoring


 * Activities---** I'm involved in wider efforts of social reform, including housing and sanitation issues, factory inspections, rights of immigrants. I served as vise president of the National Woman Suffrage Association.

***Interests---** I love to help people but mostly women and children that can't support themselves. ***Education---** Rockford College

***Work---** Social Work ***Favorite Quotations---** “Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.” – Speech, Honolulu (1933) “learn of life from life itself”

==== ** *About M e --- ** When i was younger I wanted to go into medicine but when I became a charter member of the National Association of the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), I became a mover and "shaker" of labor reform. At a point in my life I fell into a deep depression because of my sensitivity to they way women were expected to live and I figured I couldn’t do anything with myself. Same thing goes for marriage. I figured what’s the point to get married and tied down to a man and live the life of a normal housewife so I traveled throughout Europe and spent my winters in Baltimore. While visiting London with my best friend Ellen Starr I became inspired by social reformers who lived in the poverty-stricken East End among poor people. This experience prompted me to pledge my life to helping the poor. I establishment one of the first social welfare settlement houses in America called the Hull House. Hull House attracted a remarkable group of residents, most of them women, who rose to be reformers on the local, state, and national levels. Hull House was opened to educate and improve the lives of the newly arrived European immigrants and now the new structures included a gymnasium,theater, art gallery, music school, boys' club, auditorium, cafeteria, cooperative residence for working women, kindergarten, nursery, libraries, post office, meeting and club rooms, art studios, kitchen, a dining room and apartments for the residential staff. ====

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**Jane Addams i ** s getting ready for Noble Peace Prize Honoring. about 30 seconds ago- Comment- Like Jessica M. likes this. Jessica M. can't wait to see you there! Good luck.

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** Martyna Mosiej ** The assembly regarding the Progressive Party is tomorrow? Yesterday at 10:46pm - Comment - Like View all 10 comments Lauren Trager okay so I gtg but the assembly is tomorrow in the auditorium

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