Grace Abbott

Grace Abbott ( born November 17, 1878 in Grand Iceland, Nebraska, † June 19, 1939 in Chicago, Illinois) was an American social reformer, children 's rights activist and high school teacher.

Biography

After visiting the Grand Iceland college the daughter of a government official from 1899 to 1907 teacher at the High School Grand Iceland was before she then completed a postgraduate course at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln ( UNL ). In 1909 she earned a Philosophiae Doctor ( Ph.D.) in Political Science at the University of Chicago and moved to this time with her older sister, Edith, founded by Jane Addams in the 1880s charity Hull House. Both sisters were convinced that not only humiliating poor laws have been eliminated, but poverty itself

Between 1910 and 1917 she was not only director of the Immigrants ' Protective League (IPL ), but also a lecturer at the University of Chicago. In 1917 she published the book The Immigrant and the Community. After that they appointed U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as Head of the Department to combat child labor in the U.S. Children's Bureau.

In 1921 she was appointed by U.S. President Warren G. Harding appointed Head of the Children's Bureau in the Department of Labor of the United States, this function held until 1934, and as such was a staunch activist against child labor. She then took in 1934 was offered a professorship of public welfare at the University of Chicago and held this teaching until her death from multiple myeloma from. U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt called them also in the advisory board for the drafting of the Social Security Act of 1935.

During the time of her teaching, she wrote The Child and the State (1938). Her latest book From Relief to Social Security was published posthumously in 1941.

Background literature

  • Wallace Kirkland: The Many Faces of the Hull House, Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1989.
  • Patricia Madoo Lengermann, Jill Niebrugge - Brantley: The Women Founders: Sociology and Social Theory 1830-1930, McGraw -Hill Companies, Inc., 1998

External links and sources

  • Grace Abbott at the Notable Names Database (English)
  • Webster
  • Spartacus
  • School of Social Service Administration from the University of Chicago
  • America 's Library
  • Social reformer
  • Social scientist
  • University teachers ( University of Chicago)
  • Americans
  • Born in 1878
  • Died in 1939
  • Woman
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