Jane Addams

 Among many achievements, Jane Addams was:

• A founder and the first president of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• A founder of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• A founder of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
• The first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize

March 25

Breakfast: 8am
Symposium: 8:30am

Read flyer

The Jane Addams Symposium – Free Breakfast Forum
Palmer House Hilton – Empire Room, 17 East Monroe Street, Chicago

This free breakfast forum will discuss Jane Addams’ role as a
community organizer, as well as lessons we can draw from Miss Addams’ pioneering insights. In addition, women leaders will be honored for their involvement in community transformation. Author Louise Knight will lead the morning’s discussion.

Keynote Speaker: Louise W. Knight, author of “Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy” and the upcoming full life biography, “Jane Addams: Spirit in Action.”

Books

• Check out this list of recommended reading!
  (PDF file)
• Read an excerpt from Citizen, Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy by Louise W. Knight.
  (PDF file)
• Citizen & other books can be ordered online from our official Jane Addams Day bookstore. Visit Women and Children First & enter "Jane Addams" in the search field

Jane-related Articles by AAUW member
Barbara Zeitz (CountHerHistory). These are Acrobat PDF files.

• Jane and Gender
• Mostly Men, Women, and Children
• The Missing Peace
• OH SHE - OSHA
• Her Social Securi-Tea

Museums

• Jane Addams Hull-House Museum: www.hullhousemuseum.org
• Chicago History Museum: www.chicagohistory.org
• National Women's History Museum: www.nwhm.org, (for Jane Addams info, see http://www.nwhm.org/ProgressiveEra/hullhouse.html)
• View a Jane Addams web site showcasing the December 10, 2007, Jane Addams luncheon at the Hull-House Museum.

Film

• Dinner at Jane's is a documentary film directed by Suzanne Lacy. Filmed at Chicago’s Hull-House Museum in September, 1993, during the centennial celebration of the Columbian Exposition.
  Dinner at Jane's is now available on DVD! For more details, visit http://www.films42.com/feature/JAD09.asp

Quilt

AAUW members from all over Illinois made Jane Addams Star blocks in 19th century reproduction fabrics for this quilt. (click photo to enlarge)

I want to thank the Jane Addams Committee and Jane Munsie as Chair for a very successful event [Dec. 6]. We sold out at 100 attending before Thanksgiving and I think everyone who attended the event enjoyed the day. I especially thought the presentation and slides of the Camp by Ty Roher, Director of the Waukegan History Museum, made the whole idea of camp and children come alive. The committee had everything well organized, the decorations were festive, the food was good and the caterer was very efficient, and there appeared to be lots of networking happening.

Linda Henning Cohen
AAUW-IL President