“True peace is not merely the absence of war, it is the presence of justice.”
Jane Addams, born in Cedarville Illinois, on September 6, 1860, was nothing but extraordinary. Being one of the few open social reformers and suffrage activists in her time, she set the stage for women to come. Leading the generation of “new women” by becoming top of her class in the Rockford Female Seminary, Addams was already beginning her claim to fame.
Jane Addams, one of the lucky women that got to travel to London and enjoy the sights, found something much more important there. After traveling to London with her friend Ellen Gates Starr, and visiting the Toynbee Hall. She vowed to bring that to Illinois, in 1889 her vow came to life. Addams and Starr founded the Hull House to help Chicago’s poor industrial side. The Hull House was the first settlement house in America. A settlement house is a place that provides education, recreational opportunities, and other social services. The goal of the Hull House was to gather educated women or “new women” and get them talking and sharing thoughts. They provided an array of different services, such as daycare facilities, job training, English language learning, cooking, and classes for immigrants.
Later in life, around 1907, Addams was one of the founding members of the Child Labor Committee, which played a part in the Child Labor Laws in 1916. During WWI, she protested the U.S. with every fiber of her being. In her opinion, human beings are able to solve problems without using violence. After heading to the Women’s Peace Party, she quickly became president of the International Congress of Women. In her last ten years of life, Addams helped found the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom. She later served as the president of the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom, until 1929. Sadly, a heart attack took a great toll on her health, she persevered through it until 1935, when the fight was too challenging to overcome.
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