Hull House Museum Jane Addams Day 2014
In 1931, Jane Addams became the first American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize. In 2007, the State of Illinois set aside December 10 as a holiday to remember Addams’ lifelong commitment to peace and justice. Jane Addams and the Hull-House reformers worked alongside their migrant neighbors to create the conditions for peace to thrive. They passed critical legislation and influenced policy on public health and education, free speech, gender and racial justice, fair labor practices, immigrants’ rights, recreation and public space, and the arts.
A founder and president of the Women’s Peace Party, Addams empowered women across the U.S. – and eventually around the world – to demand an end to World War I. At a time when American women were not even permitted to vote, she spoke at The Hague and lobbied political leaders. The FBI maintained a file on Addams because of her local and international peacebuilding efforts and her lifelong commitment radically democratic and inclusive public space.
Community Dinner and Discussion
Lisa Junkin-Lopez is a public historian, educator and organizer who for six years has worked at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum where she currently serves as Interim Director. Tonight she shares a Hull-House story of Care and Resistance.
Listen to a Hull-House story:
The Practice of Ethnic Genocide by the UIC Hull House Museum
Lisa Junkin Lopez”s invitation to the UIV stuent body excludes mention of the immigrant population that was the Hull Houe neighborhood beginning with its orifins in 1889. The first invitation sent out by Jane Addams and was written in Italian. Ms. Lopez excludes the immigrant population that was served by Hull House. Her invitation wrongly states that ”Jane Addams and the Hull-House reformers worked alongside their “migrant neighbors.” The late arriving migrant blacks and Mexicans were few and far between. They were never a significant part of the Hull House phenomenon.
The ethnic genocide being practiced by the caretakers of the Hull house museum comes in various forms. Some are blatant; some are hypocritical and some are insidious, as in the latest act of ethnic genocide, occurring on December 10, 2014, in celebration of Jane Addams Day, with Lisa Junkin-Lopez serving as interim director.
The immigrant population that arrived at the turn of the 20th century and remained through WWI, prohibition, the great depression, WWII, urban renewal and the UIC debacle remains non-existent. Very shortly the Greeks, Jews and Italians will disappear from the history and legacy of Jane Addams and the Jane Addams’ Hull House. “It will be as if we never were.”
Vincent Romano, Taylor Street Archives.
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