Who
was Jane Addams?
Jane
Addams was a world renowned social worker. Most connected with her
work in Chicago with Hull House, she worked for peace and freedom,
justice and equality tirelessly in many arenas her entire, very
long life.
Jane Addams won the Nobel Peace
Prize in 1931. She was the first American woman to win this prestigious
award.
She is considered by many to
be the "mother " of modern social work.
Links
to websites about Jane Addams
Jane
Addams Hull-House Museum
Jane
Addams page from the Nobel e-Museum
Some
books by, and about, Jane Addams
American
Heroine
by Allen David
Twenty Years at Hull-House: With Autobiographical
Notes
by Jane Addams
The Jane Addams Reader
by Jane Addams and Jean Bethke Elshtain
Women at the Hague: The International
Peace Congress of 1915 (Classics in Women's Studies)
by Jane Addams, Emily Greene Balch, Alice Hamilton, and Mary Jo
Deegan
Our gratitude to the Swarthmore
College Peace Collection for the use of photographs of Jane Addams.
And Very special thanks for
their vital work preserving the voices and stories of many tireless,
and often invisible women who worked, and some who are working still,
for a just and peaceful world.
Introduction
to the Jane Addams Peace Association
The
Jane Addams Peace Association (JAPA) is the 501(c)3 educational
affiliate of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), founded in 1915 with Jane
Addams as its first president. Jane Addams was the first American
woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, which she received in 1931.
She
was a founder of the 