Peg Strobel, former director of the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago, interviews Louise (Lucy) W. Knight, author of Citizen: Jane Addams and the Struggle for Democracy (2005) and Jane Addams: Spirit in Action (2010). They discuss the work and legacy of Jane Addams, social reformer, co-founder of the most famous settlement house in the U.S., and the first U.S. woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The discussion ranges from settlement houses (what were they?), to Jane Addams as a socialist, to her latter career as a feminist peace activist with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
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