Jane Addams
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was a United States social worker, reformer, and peace advocate. During her active career of 46 years she made Hull House in Chicago world famous as a social settlement. An outspoken pacifist, Miss Addams shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize with President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia Universit ....
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.... of injustice and cruelty. Miss Addams solicited financial support, added new buildings to her social settlement, and recruited volunteer workers. Her book Twenty Years at Hull-House (1910) made her famous. The institution became the leading social settlement in the United States, and a training center for social workers.
was active in Chicago in fighting civic vice and corruption. She campaigned for better working conditions, more protection for working women, for stricter child labor laws, fo ....
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