SOAN 2112 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Jane Addams, Toynbee Hall, Hull House
22 Feb 2016
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She was one of the first american women to obtain a university degree. A visit to toynbee hall in london 1888 trying to help resolve things. She opened hull house the following year in an immigrant area of chicago. Hull house gave classes of all kinds of practical matters from cultural evenings, union organizations and a social science club. The first lobbying the women of the settlement did was the legislation for banning child labor in which they were successful. She was a great speaker publishing a great deal on social policy, prostitution and juvenile delinquency. She served as the president of the women"s international league for peace and freedom from its founding in 1915 until her death in 1935. She led the american delegation to the international women congress at the hague in 1915. She also attended the second great women"s peace conference in 1919 in zurich. She received many honorary degrees and the nobel peace prize in 1931.
