Rachel B. Marks (1911 – April 13, 1998): Social Worker, Professor, Author and Co-Founder of the Social Welfare History Group Rachel Marks A. M. ’44, Ph. D. ’50, was a social work educator and proponent of social work history. After experiences as a case worker and then teaching in Virginia and Brazil, at Indiana University…
Continue Reading »Christina Isobel MacColl (December 1864 – 1939): Founder of Christodora House on the Lower East Side of New York By June Hopkins, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Armstrong Atlantic State University There have been countless lives lived by women who had a very significant and enduring impact on the direction of history. Many of these women exercised…
Continue Reading »Abraham Lurie (1917- ): Social Worker, Mental Health Advocate, Educator, Researcher and Author Lurie is one of the great innovators in social work. His programs in psychiatry, health care, and discharge planning are known throughout the world. His substance of contributions to the re-socialization of schizophrenics and to the application of group methods in health…
Continue Reading »Carrie Steele Logan (1829-1900): Child Welfare Advocate and Provider Carrie Steele worked as an individual to care for abandoned children, first in her own home and later in orphanage she built by selling her house. Her orphan home founded in 1888 still exists today in Atlanta, Georgia as a private institution renamed the Carrie Steele-Pitt…
Continue Reading »Sophie Irene Loeb (July 4, 1876–1929): Child Welfare Advocate, Social Welfare Reformer, Journalist and Author. During the Progressive Era, Sophie Loeb was one of many women to enter the political arena through reform work, calling for government involvement to mitigate the problems of poverty. Loeb brought her life experience and her personalized approach to…
Continue Reading »Eduard C. Lindeman (May 9, 1885 — April 13, 1953) — Philosopher, Teacher, Scholar and Social Reformer Early Years: Eduard C. Lindeman was born in 1885 in St.Claire, Michigan, one of ten children, of an impoverished immigrant family of German speaking Danes. His father died when he was a young boy and he spent…
Continue Reading »Katharine F. Lenroot, (March 8, 1891 – February 10, 1982) – Director of the Children’s Bureau, Child Welfare Advocate and Social Welfare Leader
Continue Reading »Julia Clifford Lathrop (1858-1932): First Chief of the Children’s Bureau and Advocate for Enactment of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921
Continue Reading »Gisela Konopka (1910 – 2003) — Social Group Worker, Researcher, Educator and Author by Rhoda G. Lewin January 21, 2011 Gisela Konopka’s outstanding career in youth and adolescent services, social work, education and history is reflected in her litany: “All my life I have been fighting for justice, and for respect for all people….
Continue Reading »Albert J. Kennedy (1879-1968) — Settlement House Pioneer, Researcher, Author and Community Advocate Introduction: Albert Joseph Kennedy was a pioneer in the U. S. settlement house movement. He was associated with settlement house work and the National Federation of Settlements for nearly sixty years. The social settlement movement was based on the idea that those…
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