Jane Addams: Together We Rise - A Chicago Stories Documentary 

It's wonderful that we have this woman as part of our American Heritage. It wasn't only her, though. Masses of people had an open heart and were willing to listen. It seems like masses of people are willing to listen to fear and oppression these days. Let's raise our voice. Let's wake up. Another Jane Adams will rise among us, I know it.

First kindergarten school, first social worker, first workers compensation first juvenile court, first settlement house, etc. Jane Addams was indeed a pioneer.

Thank you WTTW♥️

What an incredible story! She was like a jack of all trades when it came to social change.

Wish the us house repersentives could get there life together. We need more Jane Adams in these days.

I just wanna thank Jane Addams for giving way for Social Work to be a career path for people. Coming into my undergrad, I had no idea what I wanted to do until a friend suggested Social Work and I instantly fell in love with it! Just hearing the story of Jane Addams and how she pioneered this incredible career path is truly something to behold

THE very 1st social worker.

This documentary was amazing. So happy I watched it.

I appreciate the balance injected to keep from painting Ms. Addams as a saint. She very well might have been seen as such by a multitude of people, but she did have faults. What makes her a role model is that she either recognized those aspects of her upbringing, schooling, personality or beliefs (or was confronted with them as pointed out by others) and really did make an effort to listen, reevaluate & adapt or change her effort to best fit the community she sought to serve. I once had lofty ambitions to be... Well, not Jane. But of being someone who might have been worthy enough to live at Hull House. And I find that the older I get the more I regret letting my own hardships get in the way of that ambition. I've tried to live by the motto, "I'd rather live to regret the things I've done than to regret never having done them." But I regret a few of the life choices that wore me down & killed that desire to change the world.

My favorite era in American History is this one. On the East Coast we had The Five Points..

Bring back The Jane Addams Faction of the Abraham Lincoln Illinois Republican Party

The fact that names such as Vanderbilt and Morgan, men who built their wealth on the backs of children should be remembered as icons in America's success, while Addams is nearly forgotten speaks volumes for the so called values of our ongoing society. Men like J.P. Morgan were the scum of the earth.

Great documentary about a great lady from my alma mater, Rockford College, formerly Rockford Female Seminary, now Rockford University. Julia Lathrop, too. Go Regents!

Inspiring!

Jane was a great lady (and an adorable child!) I trust the younger people and believe in them. They have many great individuals among them who are doing incredible things every day. Sadly we rarely get beyond the vapid “People” magazine fodder.

This inspired me to study social work. However, the pay was low, the case loads were astronomical, we were getting no funding for anything of any importance, it was the churches that came through in the long run. Today it is even worse. We can house, feed and give benefits to migrants who enter the country illegally. People are suffering.

Would Jane Addams be considered the first American social worker? 🤔

I would have been interesting to have Jane live another 3-5 years, at least, to see what her reaction(s) would have been to the full implementation of the New Deal programs. But that would have meant she was here for at least the early part of World War II; I wonder if at her advanced age she could have handled the heartbreak of that horrific conflagration--and across all of its fronts...military, economic, social, etc.

Can you imagine the abuse at the hands of severely disturbed criminals that these 200+ children in Cook County Jail endured?😢😓😭

When conservative Republican took over Washington. They branded her a radical. She was progressive not a radical.

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One of my female heros in American history. Although I must admit I never know she was homosexual. Great that she had her personal emotional needs met. I've been very pro-women since a child when I noticed my dad had male chauvinist pig qualities. He was born in 1927.

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Why did the government bring all these people into the country without have sufficient resources.

Her mother didn’t slip and fall. She had gone-on horseback-to help deliver a neighbor’s baby. Her mother went into premature labor.

Can we look outside the box for a second? Some of these poor very young girls were also being taken advantage of by their older male superiors. This was a daily hell thats really undescribable today. Im not saying that thos happened everywhere all.the time, im sure there were some Employers who admonished that sort of thing, but what still.happens today was more prevalent back then with fewer consequences..

#werise2newclothing

While hull house did help children, they fully endorsed and supported the systems that enabled and created families that could not survive on their wages alone. It is abysmal that only rich kids get a legacy 🙄

She got more done than the government. They was not thinking about soveling any problems. but yet created them.