Voicing a Cause, Voicing a Self: Jane Addams of Hull House

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Throughout her long career advocating the needs of impoverished immigrants, exploited laborers, delinquent youths, and war victims, Jane Addams valued Hull House, her settlement house in Chicago, as the center from which she and her colleagues could assist others and improve society, while adding meaning to their own lives. She trusted social democracy to restore dignity to the marginal. Her many publications reveal a person finding identity and purpose through such causes as women’s suffrage and child labor legislation to universal peace. The presentation, done in costume, helps to explain the path chosen by this Nobel Peace Prize recipient, as well as to convey the relevance of Addams’ work and ideas today.  Lewis adapts each program to the topics and themes of interest to the sponsoring groups.