"...the most dangerous woman in America"

WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT JANE ADDAMS
Yesterday's hero would be odd today

By Patrick T. Reardon
Tribune staff reporter
Published June 11, 2006

Jane Addams--the hard-headed radical reformer who left her imprint on the world a century ago--is fading into the fog of the past.

It was with that in mind that the Illinois General Assembly this spring passed a new state law designating Dec. 10 as a commemorative day in her honor. On Thursday, Lt. Gov. Pat Quinn and a host of dignitaries and schoolchildren will gather at the Hull House Museum to celebrate the recent signing of the bill by Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

But the modest gesture of establishing a Jane Addams Day isn't likely to do much toward bringing Addams back into public prominence.

"There are things about Jane Addams that are very much at odds with our political climate," said Victoria Bissell Brown, a Grinnell College history professor and author of "The Education of Jane Addams."

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0606110193jun11,1,1047247.story

Frank was a 1/2 American Indian Labor organizer who was lynched for being against WW1. Interesting guy.
http://www.newhumanist.com/little.html


But yes, Jane Addams is someone whose legacy is fading fast. A great woman like that, gosh, I haven't thought of her for years until you posted this. And, that's a shame.

>>>Our thoughts are basically constructed for us by our educational institutions and by the mass media, so we have little information regarding the turbulent class struggle that was taking place a century ago.>>>>

Too true.

and I know virtually nothing about the guy. I was asked to contribute to an anthology about work that a prominent American Indian writer is putting together and she suggested Frank Little as someone for me to write about. I am currently doing some research on him, but it would be nice to learn all about a guy like this when I was in school. If you don't seriously dig for info nowadays on your own, you basically don't know all that much. Mass media and educational institutions are weak on that. I think that is why Bush can take our country back to 1930 and our media and educational institutions sit on their thumbs and act dumb about what is going on.

little things like wanting to feed German children after WWI destroyed her reputation until the Depression brought her back into prominance. Heavily influenced by the Christian Socialist movement in Britain, she was one of those rare people who would not compromise herself while trying to find compromises for others. Horrors-- whjiil;e supported labor she actually talked to management!

She walked the walk and acted first, before the talk. Where are her descendants today?

I don't know if her siblings followed in her footsteps or not.

her ideological descendants.

(Should have made that clearer.)

I actually thought it was going to be a Coulter thread. :)