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Mary believed social welfare was a civic responsibility and many of her theories on social work were adopted for use in Asia, South America and Europe. [ 1 ] Some of the most notable contributions Mary Richmond gave was that she fought to obtain legislation for deserted wives and founded the Pennsylvania Child Labor Committee, the Public ...
Fort Worth, Texas, U.S. Stormie Dawn Jones (May 30, 1977 – November 11, 1990) was the world's first recipient of a successful simultaneous heart and liver organ transplant . Early life
The 1918 July Texas primary and November general election marked the first time Texas women could exercise their right to vote. [6] Blanton was elected to the office of State Superintendent of Public Instruction with support from the Texas State Teachers Association, and with a campaign orchestrated by suffragist Minnie Fisher Cunningham . [ 13 ]
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Regarding the development of social service in the beginning of the 20th Century (1910-1920), women and feminists movements were crucial for the recognition of social work as a profession. On one hand, their discourse reinforced the dualist vision of social roles, considering care work was appropriate with the characteristic women were supposed ...
Women who participated in this organization were highly influential. "Some league members were trained educators and professionals, and the education of youth remained the organization's primary focus." [16] It developed into a social, political and charitable organization for women that, in part, provided food and clothes to those in need. [7 ...
Moreno's activism began in 1958, after a flood destroyed crops and stopped farm work. Farmworkers were denied food assistance and her family nearly starved. [4] In 1959 she was hired as an organizer for the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), becoming the first female farmworker in the U.S. to be hired as a union organizer.
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.