Jane Addams

Jane Addams

- Biography #1- Biography #2- Goals- Hull House- Accomplishments

Date of Birth: September 6, 1860Date of Death: May 21, 1935

Goals

1.) Wanted to build a place for the less fortunate.

2.) Wanted to help gain women and colored people the right to vote.

3.) To help people gain jobs.

The Life of Jane Addams

- Founder of American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

- Worked for trash company in Chicago and enjoyed the job.

-During World War I she held a women's conference for peace held in Hague, Netherlands.

Methods

1.) Bought Hull House to help immigrants assimulate and improve communities.

2.) Joined clubs and unions to give women and colored people equal rights to white men.

3.) Wrote books about women's suffrage to help women gain the right to vote.

Addams as a little girl.

Addams with children from the Hull House.

Hull House in the 1890's.

Jane Addams writing one of her many books.