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Social Service
 Websites presented in alphabetical order The Association of Junior Leagues International Inc. (AJLI) 
 Junior Leagues are made up of women volunteering in communities in areas such as HIV/AIDS education, literacy, and day care. Past Junior Leaguers have included Eleanor Roosevelt and Sandra Day O'Connor. At the AJLI site, you can find a Junior League in your area and read about the organization's history and the programs in which they participate. There are links to other volunteer organizations. http://www.ajli.org/ Topics: Charity & Nonprofit Resources, Jobs & Work, Women Last updated Feb 20, 2005 Introduction to an Exhibit of Photographs of Jane Addams, Her Family, and Hull-House
Brief biographical information, a bibliography, a description of the Jane Addams Collection, and photos of the Nobel Prize winner and "Mother of the World" who "championed the protection of immigrants, child labor laws and recreation facilities for children, industrial safety, juvenile courts, recognition of labor unions, woman suffrage, and world peace." By archivist Anne Yoder, Swarthmore College Peace Collection. http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/peace/Exhibits/janeaddams/addamsindex.htm Topics: Labor, Military, Notable People: Women, Photograph Collections, Photograph Collections: History, Religion Last updated May 22, 2008 Maggie Growls
Companion website to an Independent Lens documentary about "the amazing, canny, lusty, charming and unstoppable Maggie Kuhn (1905-1995), who founded the Gray Panthers in 1970 after being forced to retire from a job she loved." Includes material about Kuhn and the Gray Panthers ("an organization of intergenerational activists working to change laws and attitudes for social and economic justice"), a filmmaker Q&A, and related links. http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/maggiegrowls/ Topics: Notable People: Women, Seniors Last updated Jul 18, 2007 Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and Its Neighborhoods, 1889-1963
This Web site explores the history of Jane Addams and Hull-House, the social settlement she founded in Chicago in 1889. It features "interpretive narrative, selected essays and images, and a great variety of historical texts including relevant letters, memoirs, newspaper and magazine articles, popular literature, political tracts and cartoons." Includes curriculum materials. Searchable. From the University of Illinois at Chicago. http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/ Topics: History, Nonfiction by Genre, Notable People: Women, U.S. History By Place Last updated Apr 13, 2005 |
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