Jane Addams

Lao Laura Jane Addams (Laura Jane Addams, September 6, 1860 - May 21, 1935), founder of the Hull Palace Association in Chicago, USA. She won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize for her fight for the rights of women and black immigrants. She was also the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. After graduating from Rockford College in Illinois in 1881, he entered the Womens Medical College of Philadelphia. In 1889, she built a large residence in a working-class slum in Chicago and named it Hull House, from which she carried out various social welfare work. Later, this organization was called the Hull House Association. Adams also worked with the Federation of Labor and other social reform organizations to formulate the first juvenile court law in the United States, an eight-hour working day for women, etc. In 1910, she became the first woman president of the National Association of Social Workers in the United States. From 1919 to 1935, she served as president of the Womens International League for Peace and Freedom. Adams was a social reformist and the founder of the Hull Palace Society, for which he won the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize. Her main works include: "Democracy and Social Ethics", "New Ideals of Peace", "Twenty Years at Hull" and "The Second Twenty Years at Hull", etc. Died in 1935.