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Description: Biography for the activist, social worker, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, from the library's Open Collections Program.
Open Collections Program: Women Working, Jane Addams (1860–1935) Portrait of Jane Addams from her book, Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes. Jane Addams, activist, social worker, author, and Nobel Peace Prize winner, is best remembered as the founder of Hull-House in Chicago, a progressive social settlement that sought to reduce poverty through offering social services and educational opportunities to the poor immigrants and laborers of working-class Chicago. Addams became one of the country's most prominent women through her settlement work, her writing, and, later, as an international activist for world peace.
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