![]() ![]() Jane Addams and the Hull-House residents provided kindergarten and day care facilities for the children of working mothers an employment bureau an art gallery libraries English and citizenship classes and theater, music and art classes. During the 1920s, African Americans and Mexicans began to put down roots in the neighborhood and joined the clubs and activities at Hull-House. In the 1890s, Hull-House was located in the midst of a densely populated urban neighborhood peopled by Italian, Irish, German, Greek, Bohemian, and Russian and Polish Jewish immigrants. Some social settlements were linked to religious institutions. Settlement houses typically attracted educated, native born, middle-class and upper-middle class women and men, known as “residents,” to live (settle) in poor urban neighborhoods. ![]() The idea spread to other industrialized countries. Social settlements began in the 1880s in London in response to problems created by urbanization, industrialization, and immigration. From Hull-House, where she lived and worked until her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country's most prominent woman through her writing, settlement work, and international efforts for peace. Born in Cedarville, Illinois, on September 6, 1860, and graduated from Rockford Female Seminary in 1881, Jane Addams founded, with Ellen Gates Starr, the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chicago's Near West Side in 1889. ![]()
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