Educating the masses
Heavens no! she was a social worker- par excellence! founder of the Hull House settlement house in Chicago, and Nobel Peace Laureate.
Jane Addams was considered a leader of the settlement house movement because of the fact that she helped found the Hull House which opened its doors for immigrants that were in need of housing. With all of its programs for education and the arts, the Hull House had began the settlement house movement that had grown by 1920 to almost 500 settlement houses.
Hull House was the name of the house that Jane Addams and Ellen Gates established.
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Social workers comprise a profession that had its beginnings in 1889 when Jane Addams founded Hull House and the American settlement house movement in Chicago's West Side.
Hull House's success attracted college-educated, middle class women to become social workers
Heavens no! she was a social worker- par excellence! founder of the Hull House settlement house in Chicago, and Nobel Peace Laureate.
Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in the early 20th century.
Jane Addams was considered a leader of the settlement house movement because of the fact that she helped found the Hull House which opened its doors for immigrants that were in need of housing. With all of its programs for education and the arts, the Hull House had began the settlement house movement that had grown by 1920 to almost 500 settlement houses.
Hull House's success attracted college-educated, middle class women to become social workers
Hull House's success attracted college-educated, middle class women to become social workers
Jane Addams founded hull house to teach immigrant children.
Hull House was the name of the house that Jane Addams and Ellen Gates established.
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Jane Addams; Ellen G. Starr
Hull House was started in 1889, but it still continues as an association today. The original building is the Hull House Museum in the West Loop Neighborhood of Chicago, but the the Jane Addams Hull House Association, a social service organization, still serves the greater Chicagoland area. This is the organization that Jane Addams started in 1889!