HIST 128 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Hull House, Settlement Movement, White Supremacy
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1895-1920; a series of reform efforts and initiatives ranging from a social safety net to imposing limits on corporate power in order to meet the challenges of industrialism: mothers" pensions, settlement houses. Consisted of state laws permitting public funds for families with dependent children and reserved for widows and married women whose husbands had deserted them. Volunteer organizations mainly through female graduates with a calling to serve the poor. These houses exerted influence not just locally but also nationally (e. g. the women working in these organizations are responsible for mothers" pensions): hull house. A settlement house in chicago: hull-house maps and papers . Mapping the economic and ethnic differences in the settlement house, the closeness of all the residents and their remaining divisions. A form of mob violence that is more than spontaneous, it was ritualized terror that was fueled by white supremacy and was treated as a form of entertainment to witness the execution of blacks.
