JANE ADDAMS
Academic degrees:
B.A. Rockford College
M.A. Yale University
L.L.D. University of Wisconsin
[L.L.D.] Lincoln University
[L.L.D.] Smith College
[L.L.D.] Lombard College
[L.L.D.] Illinois College for Women
Tufts College
Honorary Phi Beta Kappa, National Western University.
Founded Hull-House, social settlement, in a working class, immigrant quarters of Chicago in 1889. This has been maintained ever since, with Miss Addams as Head Resident, and it now covers a city block, is visited weekly by some 9000 men, women and children, and there are 70 men and women residents who carry on the work of the settlement.
Appointed by the Mayor of Chicago for two years inspector for the Department of Public Works, in an effort to make the poorer parts of the city cleaner.
Appointed by the United States Government Juror in Social Economies to the Paris Exposition of 1900. Appointed similarly to the St. Louis Exposition in [1904].
Member of the Chicago School Board and Chairman of the School Management Committee for three years.
Made the seconding speech at the nomination of Roosevelt at the Progressive Convention in Chicago, 1912, which speech was made part of the Congressional Record and distributed throughout the country.
President of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections [1910].
President of the National Conference of Settlements and of the International Conference of Settlements.
Vice-President or member of the Executive Committee of many national organizations, such as: American Association for Labor Legislation, Association for the Advancement of the Colored People, National Consumers' League, Old Age Pensions, National Women's Trade Union League, League for Industrial Democracy, Social Hygiene Society, National Association for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, and so on.
Associate Editor of the "NEW REPUBLIC" and the "SURVEY."
Vice-President for many years of the American Peace Society. Delegate to the International Peace Congress held in Boston in 1904. [page 2]
Chairman of the local committee of the American Peace Society Congress in Chicago, 1893.
In the winter of 1914, at a meeting at Hull-House, a temporary organization of women was effected, and in January 1915 a convention was called in Washington by Miss Addams and Mrs. Catt, attended by some 3000 people, at which the Woman's Peace Party was organized and the following program adopted:
1. The immediate calling of a Convention of neutral nations in the interest of early peace.
2. Limitation of armaments and the nationalization of their manufacture.
3. The further humanizing of Government by the extension of suffrage to women.
4. The substitution of economic pressure and of non-intercourse for rival armies and navies.
5. Concert of Nations to supersede Balance of Power.
6. Removal of the economic causes of war.
7. The appointment by our Government of a commission with adequate appropriation to promote international peace.
In the early spring of 1915, women of Holland, Great Britain, Germany and Belgium sent out a call for an international congress of women, which was held at The Hague in April and May, attended by women from twelve countries and presided over by Miss Addams. Here was organized the Women's International League for Permanent Peace. The resolutions drawn up at The Hague embodied many of the principles afterwards included by Wilson in his fourteen points. The next meeting was in Zurich in May 1919; the third in Vienna in 1921. An emergency meeting was held in The Hague in 1922. The fourth meeting was in Washington in 1924, the fifth in Dublin in 1926, and the sixth is called for Prague in 1929.
Author of:
Democracy and Social Ethics 1902
Newer Ideals of Peace 1907
The Spirit of Youth [and] the City [Streets] 1909
Twenty Years at Hull-House 1910
A New Conscience and an Ancient Evil 1912
The Long Road of Woman's Memory 1917
Peace and Bread in Time of War 1922
Co-Author of:
Philanthropy and Social Progress 1892
Hull-House Maps and Papers 1895
Religion and Social Action 1913
Women at The Hague 1915
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