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Hull House, Chicago. Settlement and community houses in the United States were a vital part of the settlement movement, a progressive social movement that began in the mid-19th century in London with the intention of improving the quality of life in poor urban areas through education initiatives, food and shelter provisions, and assimilation and naturalization assistance.
The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in the United Kingdom and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social connection. Its main object was the establishment of "settlement houses" in poor urban ...
The Progressive Era (1901–1929) was a period in the United States during the early 20th century of widespread social activism and political reform across the country. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Progressives sought to address the problems caused by rapid industrialization, urbanization, immigration, and political corruption as well as the enormous ...
Portrait of Jane Addams, from a charcoal drawing in 1892 by Alice Kellogg Tyler.Source: Addams: Twenty Years at Hull House (1910), p. 114 Laura Jane Addams [1] (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, [2] [3] sociologist, [4] public administrator, [5] [6] philosopher, [7] [8] and author.
S. Settlement and community houses in the United States. The Shack Neighborhood House. South Park Settlement. John Stewart Settlement House.
Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House, 1931. The Phyllis Wheatley Settlement House in Minneapolis, Minnesota was founded in 1924 by the Council on Social Agencies (CSA) and the Women's Cooperative Alliance (WCA). [1] Its original function was to provide a recreational facility that could be used by the Minneapolis African American community. [2]
The Houchen Settlement House was founded in 1912 in El Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas. The settlement movement was a reformist social movement that began in the 1880s and peaked around the 1920s in England and the United States. Its goal was to bring the rich and the poor of society together in both physical proximity and social ...
Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. 1912 Lawrence textile strike. 1912–1913 Little Falls textile strike. 1913 El Paso smelters' strike. 1913 Ipswich Mills strike. 1913 Paterson silk strike. 1916–1917 northern Minnesota lumber strike. 1919 Emergency National Convention. 1919 International Congress of Working Women.