Search Results for: settlement movement

Devine, Edward T.

Edward T. Devine (1867-1948) – Economist, Child Welfare Advocate, Educator, Author and Pioneer Social Worker Introduction: Edward Thomas Devine was born May 6, 1867 on a farm near Union, Iowa. His parents were John and Laura (nee Hall). Devine attended local schools and later enrolled in Cornell College in Mt. Vernon, Iowa where he…

Coit, Stanton

Stanton Coit (1857-1944) – Founder of Neighborhood Guild, the First Settlement House in the U.S. in 1886 and Founder of the South Place Ethical Society in London in 1887. Introduction: Stanton Coit was born in Columbus, Ohio on August 11, 1857. He studied at Amherst College, Massachusetts, 1879, and became an aide of Felix…

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House

Lenox Hill Neighborhood House was founded in 1894 by the Alumnae Association of Normal College (now known as Hunter College of the City University of New York) as a free kindergarten for the children of indigent immigrants. Since then, we have remained at the forefront of community advocacy and social and educational change.

Hull House – circ. 1910

“Hull-House endeavors to make social intercourse express the growing sense of the economic unity of society and may be described as an effort to add the social function to democracy.”

Simkhovitch, Mary Kingsbury

Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch — (September 8, 1867 – November 15, 1951): Social Worker, Progressive, Social Reformer, Academic and Founder of Greenwich House in New York City. Introduction: Mary Melinda Kingsbury was born in Chestnut Hill, MA, a suburb of Boston. Her parents were: Colonel Isaac Franklin Kingsbury and Laura Davis Holmes Kingsbury. She entered…

Greenwich House, New York City

“A settlement aims to get things done for a given neighborhood. It proposes to be the guardian of that neighborhood’s interests, and through identification of the interests of the settlement group with local interests, it forms a steadying and permanent element in a community which is more or less wavering and influx.”

Boys & Girls Clubs

This entry is about the history and contributions of Boys & Girls Clubs of America.

Scudder, Vida Dutton

Vida Dutton Scudder (Dec. 15, 1861, Madura, India—Oct. 9, 1954) — Educator, social worker, author, social gospel movement activist By Angelique Brown, MSW Introduction: Vida Scudder was involved in social change inside and outside of the Episcopal Church. A self described class-conscious and revolutionary socialist, she spent a large part of her life attempting to…

National Child Labor Committee

In the late 1700′s and early 1800′s, power-driven machines began to replace hand labor for the making of most manufactured items. Factories sprung everywhere, first in England and then in the United States. The owners of these factories found a new source of labor to run their machines — children.

National Women’s Trade Union League

The National Women’s Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) was established in Boston, MA in 1903, at the convention of the American Federation of Labor. It was organized as a coalition of working-class women, professional reformers, and women from wealthy and prominent families. Its purpose was to “assist in the organization of women wage workers into trade unions and thereby to help them secure conditions necessary for healthful and efficient work and to obtain a just reward for such work.”