Peace laureate Jane Addams, born on this day 161 years ago, was a social work pioneer, feminist and peace maker.
In the USA, Jane Addams worked to help the poor and to stop the use of children as industrial labourers. She ran Hull House in Chicago, a center which helped immigrants in particular.
During World War I, she chaired a women's conference for peace held in the Hague in the Netherlands, and tried in vain to get President Woodrow Wilson of the USA to mediate peace between the warring countries. When the USA entered the war instead, Addams spoke out loudly against this. She was consequently stamped a dangerous radical and a danger to US security.
Addams was critical of the peace treaty that was forced on Germany in 1919, maintaining that it was so humiliating that it would lead to a German war of revenge. At the end of her life, Jane Addams was honored by the American government for her efforts for peace.
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Photo: Jane Addams, 1906. Painting by George de Forest Brush.
Credit: National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; partial gift of Mrs. Nancy Pierce York and Mrs. Grace Pierce Forbes
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