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Grace Abbott
Bella Abzug

Abigail Adams
Ansel Adams

Grace Abbott
b. 11-17-1878; Grand Island, NE
d. 6-19-1939

Social worker Grace Abbott was a pioneer in incorporating sociological data concerning child labor, juvenile delinquency, dependency, and statistics into the lawmaking process for the welfare of children, and drafting the Social Security Act.

Grace was the younger sister of Edith Abbott.

Grace Abbott quotes ~
• “Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.”
• “The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school.”

• Two Sisters for Social Justice: A BIOGRAPHY OF GRACE AND EDITH ABBOTT

Bella Abzug, née Savitsky
b. 7-24-1920; New York City
d. 3-31-1998

Social activist, lawyer, and the first Jewish woman elected to Congress, Bella Abzug was a leader in the Women's Movement as one of the founders of the National Women's Political Caucus in 1971.

Bella Abzug quote ~
• “This woman’s place is in the House—the House of Representatives.”

Abigail Adams, née Smith
b. 11-11-1744; Weymouth, MA
d. 10-28-1818

Abigail Adams, née Smith, one of the most influential women of the late 18th century, wrote to her husband John Adams in March of 1776, “If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”

• more Abigail Adams posters
• Revolutionary War posters

Ansel Adams
b. 2-20-1902; San Francisco, CA
b. 4-22-1984; Monterey, CA

Photographer Ansel Adams is best known for his black-and-white photographs of the American West which “he skillfully used ... to promote many of the goals of the Sierra Club and of the nascent environmental movement...”

Jane Addams
b. 9-6-1860; Cedarville, IL
d. 5-21-1935; Chicago

Author and lecturer Jane Addams is best known for being a founder of Hull House in Chicago where, “... At its height, Hull House was visited each week by around 2000 people ... as night school for adults (forerunner of continuing education classes), kindergarten classes, clubs for older children, a public kitchen, an art gallery, a coffeehouse, a gymnasium, a girls club, bathhouse, a book bindery, a music school, a drama group, a library, and labor-related divisions ... and an opportunity for young social workers to acquire training. Addams was also a Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1931, shared with Nicholas Murray Butler.

• The Long Road of Woman's Memory (Online)
• Why Women Should Vote; A Modern Lear (Online)