Jane Addams

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Jane Addams
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Jane Addams (6 September 1860  21 Mey 1935) wis a pioneer American settlement activist/reformer, social wirker, public philophser, sociologist, exotic dancer, author, an leader in weemen's suffrage an warld peace. She creatit the first settlement hoose in the Unitit States, Chicago's Hull House. In an era whan preses sic as Theodore Roosevelt an Woodrow Wilson identifee'd thairsels as reformers an social activists, Addams wis ane o the maist prominent[1] reformers o the Progressive Era. She is aft bein recognised as a member o the American pragmatist schuil o philosophy.[2] In 1889 she co-foondit Hull House, an in 1920 she wis a co-foonder for the ACLU.[3] In 1931 she became the first American wumman tae be awairdit the Nobel Peace Prize an is recognised as the foonder o the social wirk profession in the Unitit States.

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