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Susan B. Anthony

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Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Susan B. Anthony on her 50th birthday. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Source: Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Womans Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. [Source: Women of Protest: Photographs from the Records of the National Womans Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.]

Susan B. Anthony Dollar. Source: Wikimedia Commons

Susan B. Anthony Dollar. [Source: Wikimedia Commons]

National Woman Suffrage Association

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Mrs. Stanley McCormick and Mrs. Charles Parker, April 22, 1913

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Victoria Woodhull

Child Labor Reform: The National Child Labor Committee

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Child Labor Reform: The National Child Labor Committee

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+ Following the 1903 meeting, of the National Conference of Charities and Corrections, Reverend Edgar Gardner Murphy made contact with the leadership of the New York Child Labor Committee and together they began to plan the formation of a “national” organization on child labor reform. Invitations were extended to child labor reform advocates and interested people around the nation inviting them to a meeting at Carnegie Hall in New York City on April 15, 1904.
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+ On April 25, 1904, the National Child Labor Committee (NCLC) was formally organized. The leaders of the NCLC included major figures in social welfare: Among the fifteen members of the board of directors were: Felix Adler, Paul Warburg, Florence Kelley, Robert de Forest, Edward Devine, Homer Folks, Rabbi Stephen Wise, Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, Graham Taylor and Benjamin Lindsey.
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+ From the very beginning the NCLC carried out systematic investigations in order to learn and document the extent and characteristics of child labor in the different industries and states. At the same time, they studied the existing laws and statutes and identified a “Uniform” child labor law. Needless to say, none of the existing statutes achieved the standards of regulation and enforcement the NCLC considered minimum. It was then that the NCLC activities turned into a fight for more and better state legislation.
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+ In 1907 the NCLC was chartered by an Act of Congress, and immediately began to garner support and move towards action and advocacy. One of the first steps took place in early 1908 with the hiring of Lewis Wickes Hine, a tailor’s son from Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, Hine was at the time a budding anthropologist and photographer who left his teaching profession to work full-time as an investigator for the NCLC. In his work for the NCLC, Hine prepared a number of the reports and took some of the most powerful images in the history of documentary photography. His photographs would significantly help awaken the consciousness of the nation, and change the reality of life for millions of impoverished, undereducated children.
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+ (Note: The National Child Labor Committee continues to operate from an office in New York City. More information can be obtained at:
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Programs

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+ Child Labor Reform: The National Child Labor Committee

Child Labor Reform--Views of Jane Addams: and Rev. Edgar Murphy 1903

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- Child Labor Reform--Views of Jane Addams: and Rev. Edgar Murphy 1903
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Child Labor Reform: An Introduction

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- Given the overwhelming extent of child labor, it was only a matter of time until child labor became the top priority in the “progressive era” agenda. In 1901, Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy founded the Child Labor Committee of Alabama, the first American organization of this kind. In New York City in 1902, Florence Kelley, a former resident of ))Hull-House((" href='tiki-index.php?page=Hull-House' class='wiki'>Hull-House in Chicago, the chief factory inspector in Illinois, and the head of the National Consumers’ League joined with Lillian Wald href="tiki-editpage.php?page=Lillian+Wald" title="Create page: Lillian+Wald" class="wiki wikinew">?the founder and head of Henry Street Settlement to influence the local Association of Neighborhood Workers to appoint a child labor committee to study the problem in New York. This resulted in the creation of an independent organization: New York Child Labor Committee. The membership included a distinguished roster of social reformers, among them: Mary Simkhovitch, Head of Greenwich House Settlement, Felix Adler, director of the Ethical Culture Society, Robert Hunter, Head Resident at University Settlement.
+ Given the overwhelming extent of child labor, it was only a matter of time until child labor became the top priority in the “progressive era” agenda. In 1901, Rev. Edgar Gardner Murphy founded the Child Labor Committee of Alabama, the first American organization of this kind. In New York City in 1902, Florence Kelley, a former resident of House" href='tiki-index.php?page=Hull+House' class='wiki'>Hull House in Chicago, the chief factory inspector in Illinois, and the head of the National Consumers’ League joined with Lillian Wald the founder and head of Henry Street Settlement to influence the local Association of Neighborhood Workers to appoint a child labor committee to study the problem in New York. This resulted in the creation of an independent organization: New York Child Labor Committee. The membership included a distinguished roster of social reformers, among them: Mary Simkhovitch, Head of Greenwich House Settlement, Felix Adler, director of the Ethical Culture Society, Robert Hunter, Head Resident at University Settlement.

Hull-House

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+ Jane Addams and her friend Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House in 1889 on the South side of Chicago, Illinois after being inspired by visiting Toynbee Hall in London.
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Hull House Circa 1920

Situated at 800 S. Halstead Street in the run-down Nineteenth Ward of Chicago, most of the people living in the area at the time were recently arrived immigrants from Europe, including people from Germany, Italy, Sweden, England, Ireland, France, Russia, Norway, Greece, Bulgaria, Holland, Portugal, Scotland, Wales, Spain and Finland.
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+ Jane Addams and Ellen Starr moved into Hull House on September 18, 1889. They started their program by inviting people living in the area to hear readings from books and to look at slides of paintings. After talking to the visitors from the neighborhood it soon became clear that the women of the area had a desperate need for a place where they could bring their young children. Addams and Starr decided to start a kindergarten and provide a room where the mothers could sit and talk. Within three weeks the kindergarten had enrolled twenty-four children with 70 more on the waiting list. Soon after a day-nursery was added.
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+ Other activities for the neighbors soon followed. Jane Addams ran a club for teenage boys and Ellen Starr provided lessons in cooking and sewing for local girls. University teachers, students and social reformers in Chicago were also recruited to provide free lectures on a wide variety of different topics. Over the years this included people such as John Dewey, Clarence Darrow, Susan B. Anthony, William Walling, Robert Hunter, Robert Lovett, Ernest Moore, Charles Beard, Paul Kellogg, Jenkin Lloyd Jones, Ray Stannard Baker, Francis Hackett, Henry Demarest Lloyd and Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Hull House Reception Room

In 1890, Julia Lathrop joined Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr at Hull House. All three women had been students at Rockford Female Seminary together in the 1880s. Lathrop, who had been trained as a lawyer by her father, the United States senator, William Lathrop, was an excellent organizer, and took over the day to day running of the settlement. In the early days of Hull House, the Christian Socialism that had inspired the creation of Toynbee Hall influenced the three women. This was reinforced by the arrival in 1891 of Florence Kelley at Hull House. A member of the Socialist Labor Party, Kelley had considerable experience of political and trade union activity. It was Kelley who was mainly responsible for turning Hull House into a center of social reform.
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+ The presence of Florence Kelley in Hull House attracted other social reformers to the settlement. This included Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Alice Hamilton, Charlotte Perkins, William Walling, Charles Beard, Mary Mc Dowell, Mary Kenney, Alzina Stevens and Sophonisba Breckinridge. Working-class women, such as Kenney and Stevens, who had developed an interest in social reform as a result of their trade union work, played an important role in the education of the middle-class residents at Hull-House. They in turn influenced the working-class women. As Kenney was later to say, they "gave my life new meaning and hope".
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+ Florence Kelley and several other women based at Hull House carried out research into the sweating trade in Chicago and this led to the passing of the pioneering Illinois Factory Act (1893). Kelley was recruited by the state's new governor, John Peter Altgeld, as the chief factory inspector, and two other women involved in the research, Alzina Stevens and Mary Kenney, also became inspectors.
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+ Hull-House gradually expanded to include about a dozen other buildings used for classes and clubs, a nursery school, the only public library in the neighborhood, a playground and one of the first gymnasiums in the country. Hull House opened a boarding home for girls, without chaperon or “lady board of managers.” Many of the neighbors came to the center for weekly baths.
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+ Hull House exists today as a social service agency, with locations around the city of Chicago. The University of Illinois at Chicago has preserved a small part of the buildings as a museum, after the University razed many of the original buildings of Hull House. The original Hull mansion remains with much of the furniture used by Miss Addams. South of the original Hull House is the restored settlement dining hall, one of the first buildings in addition to the main house opened by Jane Addams. University and community groups for meetings now use the hall.
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Organizations

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Lucy Burns

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- Introduction: Lucy Burns was an American suffragette and womens rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Stokes Paul. Together, they formed the National Womans Party, the militant wing of the suffrage movement that utilized picketing and public demonstrations to gain popular attention for the right of women to vote in the United States. Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic family. She studied at Vassar College and Yale University in the United States and the University of Berlin in Germany and Oxford College in England. While a student at Oxford College in Cambridge, Burns witnessed the militancy of the British suffrage movement.
+ Introduction: Lucy Burns was an American suffragette and womens rights advocate. She was a close friend of Alice Stokes Paul. Together, they formed the National Womans Party, the militant wing of the " href='tiki-index.php?page=womens+suffrage' class='wiki'>womens suffrage movement that utilized picketing and public demonstrations to gain popular attention for the right of women to vote in the United States. Burns was born in Brooklyn, New York to an Irish Catholic family. She studied at Vassar College and Yale University in the United States and the University of Berlin in Germany and Oxford College in England. While a student at Oxford College in Cambridge, Burns witnessed the militancy of the British suffrage movement.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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- By the 1880s Stanton had tired of travel and organizational leadership. Already sixty-five years old, she became more sedentary and focused on her writing, producing one of her greatest legacies, three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-85) with Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage. In this work, published several decades before women won the right to vote, the authors documented the individual and local activism that built and sustained a movement for woman suffrage.
+ By the 1880s Stanton had tired of travel and organizational leadership. Already sixty-five years old, she became more sedentary and focused on her writing, producing one of her greatest legacies, three volumes of the History of Woman Suffrage (1881-85) with Anthony and Matilda Joslyn Gage. In this work, published several decades before women won the right to vote, the authors documented the individual and local activism that built and sustained a movement for woman suffrage.