STHM 1113 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Federal Emergency Relief Administration, Hull House, Jane Addams
7 May 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
• Recreation Reformers
o Jane Addams
▪ Hull House of Chicago
• 1899
▪ Services for poor immigrants
▪ Included a variety of recreation opportunities
▪ Help people adjust to city living
▪ Worked with both men and women
▪ Organization for activism and political action
o Joseph Lee
▪ Appalled at children being arrested for playing in the street
▪ Play not just about pleasure, but can be directed towards creative,
athletic, and artistic endeavors
▪ Became the first president of the National Playground Association in
1907
• Now known as the NRPA
▪ Recreation essential to urban neighborhood
• Impacts of the Great Depression
o Huge increases in un and under employment
▪ More free time then ever before
▪ Fear over what this meant for society
o Government took more active role in promoting leisure and rec
▪ Federal Emergency Relief Administration
o Realization of lack of opportunities for minorities
o Great free choice in leisure
o …Yet Leisure Flourished
▪ Sport
• First baseball club 1845
• 1871 becomes professional sport
• Football between Princeton and Rutgers – 1869
▪ Many sought entertainment
• Bowery in NYC
• Sought out plays
▪ Highly interactive
▪ Cultural celebrations
• Factory Life and Conditions
o Life revolved around factory cycle
o Labor intensive
▪ All Worked!
• Needed multiple revenue to live
• Six day work week
• Could work in excess of 15 hours
• Only day off Sunday
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