Chicago Tribune: Stories of resistance and resilience are the Jane Addams Children’s Book Award winners
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Jane Addams
Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage. In 1889, Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families. Philosoph…
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culture · American reformer (1860–1935) · journalist · philosopher · writer · women's rights activist · autobiographer · social reformer · social critic · suffragette · peace activist · human rights defender · also Jane Addams, Laura Jane Addams, Jane Laura Addams, Addams
Born 6 September 1860 · Died 21 June 1935 · Q180989
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2026· 1 entry
2025· 2 entries
insider.si.edu: Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy : a life / Jean Bethke Elshtain
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WBEZ: What’s That Building? National Public Housing Museum in the former Jane Addams Homes
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2017· 1 entry
c-span: Jane Addams and John Dewey
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2015· 2 entries
Addams was named by Equality Forum as one of their 31 Icons of the 2015 LGBT History Month
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The Jane Addams Papers Project relaunched at Ramapo College led by Cathy Moran Hajo, and others Home
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2014· 1 entry
Jane Addams was one of the first 20 honorees awarded a 3-foot x 3-foot bronze plaque on San Francisco's Rainbow Honor Walk (www
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2012· 1 entry
Was inducted into the Legacy Walk, an outdoor public display which celebrates LGBTQ history and people
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2010· 1 entry
Huttner appeared as Jane Addams at a 150th Birthday Party sponsored by Rockford University (Jane Addams' alma mater), and in 2011, she appeared as Jane Addams at an event sponsored by the Chicago Park District
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2008· 2 entries
Awarded Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame (2008).
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Jane Addams was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame
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2007· 2 entries
Illinois celebrated the first annual Jane Addams Day
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The state of Illinois renamed the Northwest Tollway as the Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
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1988· 1 entry
Awarded Chicago Women's Hall of Fame (1988).
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1980· 1 entry
“Feminism: The Chicano and Anglo Versions-A Historical Analysis”
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1973· 2 entries
Awarded National Women's Hall of Fame (1973).
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Jane Addams was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame
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1965· 1 entry
Awarded Hall of Fame for Great Americans (1965).
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1939· 1 entry
“Everything that we have gained in the way of social legislation will be destroyed. It will throw us back where we were twenty-five years ago.”
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1935· 5 entries
Died 1935-06-21.
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At the age of 74, in Chicago and is buried in her hometown of Cedarville, Illinois
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Addams was the best-known female public figure in the United States
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“In his own way each man must struggle, lest the moral law become a far-off abstraction utterly separated from his active life.”
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“Civilization is a method of living, an attitude of equal respect for all men.”
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1931· 4 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Peace — for their assiduous effort to revive the ideal of peace and to rekindle the spirit of peace in their own nation and in the whole of mankind.
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Awarded Nobel Peace Prize (1931).
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The award of the Nobel Peace prize to her and Nicholas Murray Butler earned her near-unanimous acclaim
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Addams became the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize; she shared the win with Nicholas Murray Butler
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1920· 1 entry
Was a co-founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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1917· 2 entries
Also became a member of the Fellowship of Reconciliation USA (American branch of the International Fellowship of Reconciliation founded in 1919) and was a member of the Fellowship Council until 1933
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Addams started to be strongly criticized
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1915· 2 entries
On her peace mission with Aletta Jacobs and Alice Hamilton
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Gave a speech at Carnegie Hall and was booed offstage for opposing U
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1912· 3 entries
Addams published A New Conscience and Ancient Evil, about prostitution
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Helped start the new Progressive Party and supported the presidential campaign of Theodore Roosevelt
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“Addams' philosophy combined feminist sensibilities with an unwavering commitment to social improvement through cooperative efforts. Although she sympathized with feminists, socialists, and pacifists, Addams refused to be labeled. This refusal was pragmatic rather than ideological.”
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1910· 1 entry
Becoming the first woman to receive an honorary degree from the school
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1901· 1 entry
Jane Addams founded what would become the Juvenile Protective Association
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1899· 1 entry
And 1907, world leaders sought peace by convening an innovative and influential peace conference at The Hague
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1898· 1 entry
Addams joined the Anti-Imperialist League, in opposition to the U
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1894· 1 entry
Became the first woman appointed as sanitary inspector of Chicago's 19th Ward
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1893· 2 entries
For example, faculty (Vincent, Small and Bennis) worked with Jane Addams and fellow Hull House resident Florence Kelley to pass legislation "banning sweat shops and employment of children" Albion Small, chair of the Chi
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Co-authored the compilation of essays written by Hull House residents and workers titled, Hull-House Maps and Papers
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1892· 1 entry
Three years after Hull House was established (1889)
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1889· 3 entries
Addams and her college friend and paramour Ellen Gates Starr co-founded Hull House, a settlement house in Chicago
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The two visited Toynbee Hall together and started their settlement house project, purchasing a house in Chicago
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Addams co-founded Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses, in Chicago, Illinois, providing extensive social services to poor, largely immigrant families
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1881· 1 entry
With a collegiate certificate and membership in Phi Beta Kappa, she still hoped to attend Smith to earn a proper B
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1868· 1 entry
When Addams was eight years old
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1863· 1 entry
When Addams was two years old, her mother, Sarah Addams (née Weber), died while pregnant with her ninth child
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1860· 1 entry
Born 1860-09-06.
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