Jane Addams

Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public
administrator, and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's
suffrage in the United States and advocated for world peace. She also co-founded Chicago's Hull House,
one of America's most famous settlement houses. In 1910, Addams was awarded an honorary Master of
Arts degree from Yale University, she then become the first woman to receive an honorary degree from
the school. In 1920, she was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union.

Jane Addams was the only women of the earliest sociological theorist to obtain a university appointment.
She was ultimately forced out of her position in sociology department at the University of Chicago. At that
point she was placed in less prestigious social work department. It is said back then that women would
be better at home.

Jane Addams was a public philosopher who was not afraid to get her hands dirty.  Addams is best known
for her pioneering activism in the social settlement movement—the radical arm of the progressive
movement whose adherents so embraced the ideals of progressivism that they chose to live as
neighbors in oppressed communities to learn from and help the marginalized members of society.

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