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Hope you all had a great weekend. I just found out this weekend that Jane Addams was the second women to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She was recognized with this tremendous honor for her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, which she founded in 1919, "to get the great powers to disarm and conclude peace agreements".
She fearlessly defended international efforts for piece and fought against war, even if her ideas were considered by many to be unpopular. For example, during " World War I, she chaired a women's conference for peace held in the Hague in the Netherlands, and tried in vain to get President Woodrow Wilson of the USA to mediate peace between the warring countries". Even after she was "stamped a dangerous radical and a danger to US security," she refused to stop fighting for what she believed in.
Jane Addams was truly an amazing activist, not only at the national level, but also at the international level. Its important that we never forget about her work in history. Please feel free to read more about her accomplishments here.
Have a great weekend.
Best,
Michael
Wow this is really interesting! I wrote a report in 10th grade about her and I don't remember reading about this, but I might have forgotten. I think most people recognize her for the Hull House in Chicago that she founded, but her peace activism is important as well. I agree that we can't lose this important accomplishment in our historical memory.
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