Chronology

 
 

  

  

Title

Introduction

The Making of Jane Addams

Her Childhood

College and Her 20's

Hull-House

Opening

Growing

Hull-House Firsts

Classes Offered at Hull-House

Hull-House Maps and Papers: Sociology in the Settlement

Living at Hull-House

A Community of Women

Jane and Ellen and Mary

Being Saint Jane

The Legacy of Hull-House

Conclusion

Appendices

Chronology of Jane Addams’s Life

Bibliography

Additional Resources

Jane Addams’s Work Online

Sites About Jane Addams’s Legacy

 

 

 

  

1860

Born in Cedarville, Illinois

1877

Enters Rockford Female Seminary

1881

Graduates from Rockford

1888

Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England

1889

Founds Hull-House, a social settlement in Chicago, with Ellen Gates Starr

1894

Helps found Chicago Federation of Settlements

1895

Becomes garbage inspector for 19th Ward, Near West Side

1903

Becomes vice president of National Woman's Trade Union League

1905-08

Serves as member of Chicago Board of Education

1909

Helps to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Elected 1st woman President of National Conference of Charities and Corrections (later National Conference of Social Work)

1910

Mediator in Chicago Garment Worker's Strike

Publishes Twenty Years at Hull-House

1911-14

1st Vice President of National American Woman Suffrage Association

1st head of National Federation of Settlement and Neighborhood Centers

1912

Seconds Theodore Roosevelt's nomination at Progressive Party convention

1913

Attends Conference and Congress of International Woman's Suffrage Alliance, Budapest, Hungary

1915

Helps organize Woman's Peace Party, elected 1st Chairman

Presides at International Congress of Women at The Hague, Netherlands

1919

Founds Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, serves as President 1919-29

1920

Helps found the American Civil Liberties Union

1928

Presides over conference of Pan-Pacific Women's Union in Hawaii

1931

1st American woman recipient of Nobel Peace Prize

1935

Dies in hospital in Chicago and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois

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