What Chicago taught Jane Addams about making peace, WILPF US Event

Lessons Learned during America’s Long and Troubled Immigration Crisis

Nov 4, 2023 02:00 PM – Central

A little reported element of Jane Addams’ work in Chicago’s Hull House Settlement House is the experience she gained by putting herself in the middle of disparate immigrant communities which were often at odds with one another.  Through her experience during these early years at Hull House, Addams was able to see past stereotypes and culture wars to create opportunities for appreciating and even valuing differences. Those experiences were absolutely the bedrock of her ongoing work for peace, labor organizing, and conflict resolution.  Her commitment to the Hull House motto of “WITH, not FOR” (working in partnership and democratic equity with directly affected populations — not trying to tell them what was best for them) continued to define the democratic nature of Addam’s work.

Today, we need those lessons more than ever.

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Rima Lunin Schultz, PhD Boston University, is an animated and passionate speaker, a highly regarded expert on Jane Addams, and a national treasure.  Her research on Addams leans heavily on the immigration crisis surrounding those early years of Hull House, and the way Addams was able to navigate the troubled times and long term historical conflicts the immigrants brought with them.  She was former Assistant Director of the Hull House Museum and serves on the Hull House Museum Advisory Board.  She is a scholar- in-residence at the Newberry Library in Chicago.  She has written and edited many books, articles and papers about Jane Addams, feminism and the Settlement House movement as practiced at Hull House.