Hull House Opens
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History: North American Series
- Categories: Women’s Issues, Social Issues, Reform, and Protest
- Subcategories: Cities, Urbanization, Poverty, Poor People
- Curriculum: Women’s History, American History 1878-1900
- Geographical Location: Chicago
- Date: September 18, 1889
Article abstract: Two women create one of the first settlement houses, setting the standard for hundreds of subsequent efforts to aid the urban poor.
Summary of Event
While traveling in Europe in 1888, Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, close friends who had been classmates at Rockford College in Illinois, pledged to live together in a poor urban neighborhood upon their return to the United States. This decision was prompted in large part by their struggle to find meaning in a world that greatly limited opportunities for women. During the last quarter of...
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