Jane Addams
(1860-1935)
“A progressive social reformer and activist, Jane Addams was on the frontline of the settlement house movement in the late 19th and early 20th centuries… In 1889, Addams and [her friend, Ellen Gates] Starr founded Hull House in Chicago’s poor, industrial west side, the first settlement house in the United States…Addams [who was of English-American descent] became active in the women’s suffrage movement as an officer in the National American Women’s Suffrage Association and pro-suffrage columnist. She was also among the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)” National Women's History Museum
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