Timeline of Jane Addams' Life


1860
Born in Cedarville, IL
1877
Enters Rockford Female Seminary
1881
Graduates from Rockford
1888
Visits Toynbee Hall in London, England  with Ellen Gates Starr
1889
Founds Hull House with Ellen Gates Starr
1909
Helps found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
1910
Published Twenty Years at Hull House
1915
Helps organize Women's Peace Party
1915
Presides at the International Congress of Women at the Hague, Netherlands
1920
Helps found the American Civil Liberites Union
1931
First woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
1935
Dies in a hospital in Chicago; buried in Cedarville



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