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On this day in 1860, Jane Addams was born. Jane was the eighth child born to her mother Sarah Addams, and her father John Huy Addams (Michals). -
The mother of Jane Addams, Sarah Weber Addams, passed away when Jane was around two years old (Michals).
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She graduated from Rockford Female Seminary (Nobel Prize Outreach AB). -
Along with the rest of the country, Jane Addams learns that President James A. Garfield had been shot. One of her friends' stepbrothers was the one who shot him (Jane Addams Paper Project). -
Toynbee Hall, which served as the inspiration for the global social settlement movement, was visited by Jane Addams. Later on, as a result of this, Addams decided to start her own settlement home in Chicago (Jane Addams Paper Project). -
Jane participates in the Woman's Christian Temperance Union chapter's founding and rises to its presidency in Cedarville (Jane Addams Paper Project). -
In Chicago, Jane and Ellen Gates Starr, a friend and coworker, establish the Hull House (Michals). For more information regarding the Hull House, you can visit https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/settlement-houses/hull-house/ -
Jane Addams' book Twenty Years at Hull-House was published. This book is still an inspiration to readers to this day (Jane Addams Paper Project). -
In Yale University's history, Jane Addams was the first woman to get an honorary degree (Jane Addams Paper Project). -
Jane Addams contributes to the establishment of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
She was also voted as the National Conference of Charities and Corrections' first female president (later National Conference of Social Work) (Jane Addams Paper Project). -
World War I began in 1914 and continued on until 1918 (World War I Begins).
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Voters elect her as the first chair of the Woman's Peace Party and preside at the International Congress of Women in The Hague, Netherlands (Jane Addams Paper Project). -
In 1917 the United States joined World War I after declaring war on Germany (Office of the Historian). -
An African American teenager who had been swimming accidentally drifted into the white swimming area, resulting in the youth being stoned and finally drowning. This led to the Chicago Race Riot, a violent racial clash between white Americans and African Americans (Augustyn). -
Jane speaks before the Chicago Commission on Race Relations regarding the Hull-House neighborhood's increased racial and ethnic hostilities in the wake of the city's South Side Race Riot in July 1919 (Jane Addams Paper Project).
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Thanks to the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, women in the United States were given the right to vote (The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). Read Jane Addams Why Women Should Vote January 1910 article here.
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She is the first American woman to be given the Nobel Peace Prize, a recognition of her unwavering pacifism throughout World War I (Nobel Prize Outreach AB). -
At the age of 74, Jane Addams was laid to rest in her hometown of Cedarville (Michals).