HIST 173 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Lillian Wald, Social Gospel, Lower East Side
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Moved to nyc to become a professional nurse. Worked in the inhumane conditions at a juvenile asylum. Rented an apartment on the lower east side w mary brewster. Offered professional care in the home for nominal fee. National movement focused on a variety of reform initiatives, including ending corruption, a more. Progressives could be found in all classes, regions, and races. American reform for the rest of the 20th century. No uni ed movement but a varied collection of reform communities, often eeting, uniting citizens in. Offered an uneasy combination of social justice and social control, a tension that would characterize. Vote, courts, the legislature- to address social problems. Progressives emphasized social cohesion and common bonds as a way to understand how modern society and economics actually worked: largely rejected the ideal of individualism (19th century)
