Jane Addams was a fifth generation American, her mother’s roots ran back to a German immigrant who arrived in Philadelphia in 1727. John Huy Addams, her father at the age of 22, moved with his wife to Northern Illinois. Jane Addams birth in Cedarville September 6, 1860 came at one of the tensest periods of American history. Jane’s childhood was filled with men risking their lives in the duty of what they believed to be right. After an mundane education in the village school in Cedarville, Jane Addams aged seventeen thought about college. Adams became part of a generation of women that were among the first of the family to attend college. Adam's Philosophy combined coming to sensibilities with an unwavering commitment to social improvement through collaborative efforts. The work done by Jane Addams and her followers were necessary to shape the world as it is today.
Jane Addams came to the city for different reasons than most. She did not look for her fortune, nor was she looking for work. Addams came
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Addams helped to found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Woman’s Peace Party. Her efforts to help poor immigrants, establish child labor laws, on behalf of world peace, and for women’s suffrage brought her the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931. Addams responded to the needs of the community by establishing a nursery, dispensary, kindergarten, playground, gymnasium, and cooperative housing for young working women. Hull-House attracted numerous women reformers dedicated to social service. Addams is a spectacular woman in all ways a woman can be. She had set forth the pillars for women's suffrage, and for better standards for immigrants. Her work, regardless of how controversial was necessary to shape our views on society as it is today. Jane Addams represented hope for the people of chicago, and she had truly outdone