H ull House and Settlements Shaping Immigrant Aid and Labor Reform
The Hull House and Henry Street settlements pioneered English classes for immigrants and warned against fraudulent loan societies and unfair employers. Florence Kelley helped found labor laws and factory improvements, while Hull House fostered women’s unions. led reforms reduced sweatshops and child labor as legislation followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jane Addams
Ellen Gates Starr
Hull House
Henry Street
Florence Kelley
National American Consumers League
Education reformers and figures expand access to schooling
The piece notes Miss Frances Wright advocating National Rational Republican Education Free for All at the expense of all under state guardianship. It also highlights Helen Keller’s work for the disabled, Sister Kenny’s polio treatment advancements, and their combined impact on expanding education for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frances Wright
Helen Keller
Sister Kenny
Women reformers reshape prison system and juvenile justice
The passage notes Dora Foster, Margaret Fuller Ossoh, Dorothea Dix, Julia Tutwiler, and Hannah Schoff advancing humane treatment, prison reform, and asylum advocacy. It highlights improvements in lighting, sanitation, and medical care, moved insane to mental institutions, reform of juvenile procedures, and creation of reformatories and juvenile courts by the 1880s.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dora Foster
New York
Margaret Fuller Ossoh
Dorothea Lynde Dix
Julia Tutwiler
Hannah Schoff
Unfulfilled Hope in Women’s Political Role
The piece argues women will take a greater, more effective role in government over the next 25 years. It says even without bloc voting, an intelligent, well informed ballot will improve governance at all levels.
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Women’s Central Association of Reform
West 4Th Street
New York 14
N. Y
Chelsea
Amsterdam Ave
114Th Street
America
Manhattan
Jack Moffat
Rockefeller Plaza
de St
Barna the College
Broadway
112Th
113Th Sts
D. Brown Associates
Lexington Avenue, N. Y. C
Budweiser
Anheuser-Busch, Inc
ST. Louis, MO
Newark, N. J
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