A co-founder of Chicago's Hull-House social settlement, Jane Addams was a reformer whose efforts earned her the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize (shared with Nicholas Murray Butler).
Addams and her longtime companion Ellen Gates Starr founded the Hull-House settlement in 1889 as a center for social services for poor immigrants. Within a few years Addams had broadened her goals to include legislative protection for women and children, advocating women's suffrage, a juvenile court system, labor laws and compulsory education. She also became internationally famous as an advocate for peace and was a founder of the Women's Peace Party and the International League for Peace and Freedom.
Although her pacifism and efforts at social reform led some to denounce her as an anarchist, socialist or communist, by the end of her career many of the social reforms she advocated had become federal policy.
Doris Lessing won the 2007 Nobel Prize for Literature because of her writing about women, individuality, and many other topics: "that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilization to scrutiny" (from the committee's press release).
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Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931 for her humanitarian efforts and advocacy for social justice. She was the second woman to receive the award and the first American woman to win it.
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Jane Addams was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931, at the age of 70.
(birthdate September 6, 1860)
She was the first female recipient of the prize.
Jane Addams won The Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.
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The Nobel Peace Prize. This is the real peace prize- the others are for various sciences, and literature.
In the state of Tennessee, Jane Addams is recognized for being a humanitarian. She also was one of the first five women to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.
Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931.