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Hand In Hand Narrow Mindedness
1,133 wordsThe great country of America has fought very long and hard for the freedom that each citizen has today. With that freedom we have attained many amenities like the right to vote. If Jane Adams and Edith Kohl were running for president, they would have to show the country how their past experiences would be able to make the country a better place for everybody. Both Kohl and Adams have very different backgrounds, but would incorporate their knowledge, beliefs, and personalities concerning the majo...
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Jane Addams Hull House
1,362 wordsJane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860, and the eighth of nine children. Her father, John Addams, was a prosperous miller and local political leader who served for sixteen years as a state senator and fought as an officer in the Civil War, he was a friend of Abraham Jane's mother dies when she was only two. Her father remarried and her new stepmother brought along two new stepbrothers to add to the already large family. With the fact of Jane's mother passing away she w...
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Booker T Washington Believed That Blacks
1,779 wordsBooker T. Washington, an educator and the most prominent black leader of his day, grew up as a slave in Franklin County, Virginia. He was born to a white slave-holding father and a slave mother. He became the most prominent black leader of the late 19 th and early 20 th century, who counseled them to focus on modest economic goals and to accept temporary social discrimination. During the time between 1877 and 1915, black Americans experienced many social and economic and political difficulties. ...
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Men And Women Turn Of The Century
1,648 wordsWithin the last decade or so, Charlotte Perkins Gilman has been l experiencing something of a renaissance. While this prominent turn-of-the-century intellectual leader languished in obscurity until Carl Dealer resurrected her in the mid- 1950 's, today there are two biographies, two collections of her writings, numerous literary criticisms; and "The Yellow Wallpaper' proclaims her "feminist manifesto, " not only in print but as adapted for Masterpiece Theater, the opera, and the ballet. l Why al...
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Jane Addams Twentieth Century
1,409 words... the urban poor. His brutal documentation of sweatshops, disease-ridden tenements, and overcrowded schools stirred up public indignation and helped effect significant reform in housing, education, and child-labor laws. Riis lived in poverty in New York City for some time before he found a job with a news bureau in 1873. He became a police reporter for the New York Tribune and the Associated Press in 1877. Horrified by immigrant life, he began a series of exposes on slum conditions on New York...
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19 Th Century Hull House
541 wordsWomen and the Fight for Reform Women in the late 19 th century, except in the few western states where they could vote, were denied much of a role in the governing process. Nonetheless, educated the middle-class women saw themselves as a morally uplifting force and went on to be reformers. Jane Addams opened the social settlement of Hull House in 1889. It offered an array of services to help the poor deal with slum housing, disease, crowding, jobless, infant mortality, and environmental hazards....
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Rules And Laws Jane Addams
1,650 wordsThe Dual Nature of the Progressive Era One common misconception is to view the Progressive movement as a unified core of reform-minded crusaders dedicated to improving the social welfare of American society. While this viewpoint is not entirely incorrect, it is only a partial and thereby misleading assessment of the movement that categorized the early part of the nineteenth-century. What some may fail to appreciate is the duality of the period-the cry for social welfare reforms juxtaposed agains...
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Jane Addams Hull House
469 wordsCritical Essay Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House The argument Addams makes that educational matters are more democratic in their political than in their social aspect (197), I believe she is referring to the long struggle between the teachers and the Chicago School Board. The Chicago School Board was politically corrupt. Many of the teachers and custodial engineers were friends of politicians who secured their positions in exchange for certain kickbacks. The school board maintained control...
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Middle Class Women Social And Political
1,379 wordsJane Addams is recognized as a social and political pioneer for women in America. In her biography, which later revealed her experiences in Hull House, she demonstrates her altruistic personality, which nurtured the poor and pushed for social reforms. Although many of Addams ideas were considered radical for her time, she provided women with a socially acceptable way to participate in both political and social change. She defied the prototypical middle class women by integrating the line that se...
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Jane Addams Hull House
331 wordsFounder of Hull-House in Chicago, first president of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom, and co-winner of the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize, Jane Addams was a dedicated crusader for social justice. Her lifes work was to fight for the under privileged and oppressed, also for the rights of workers, women and children. Jane Addams was born on September 6, 1860 in the small town of Cedarville, Illinois. As a child, Jane often felt like an outcast. She was an ugly, pigeon-toed little girl...
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Susan B Anthony Rights For Women
1,528 wordsBefore the womens movements in the United States, women who were treated unfairly and not given any equal rights as men had suffered great tragedy. There tragedy was the way the society had treated them cruelly such as 1 women once only had the option of teaching, and nursing, as career opportunities. Women would usually have the role of staying home and taking care of children and the home. Now after the first and second waves of the womens movements, women now are treated with great respect an...
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