Search Results for: Social Welfare History Project

Hudson Guild

Written by John E. Hansan, Ph.D. “The Hudson Guild is a community-based social services organization rooted in and primarily focused on the Chelsea neighborhood of New York City.”

Madison House and the Great Depression

This retrospective view of Madison House highlights the contributions of Felix Adler and the Ethical Culture Society. Madison House was funded by the Ethical Culture Society but was governed democratically by club members and staff who planned activities and programs for all ages. By Jeanne Talpers, Daughter of Philip Schiff, Headworker of Madison House 1934-1939

Madison House in 1938

“A Day in the Life of Madison House – 1938.” This entry about Madison House was contributed by Jeanne Talpers, daughter of Philip Schiff who attended Madison House as a youngster from the age of 10 and grew up to become the Headworker in 1934.

Madison House: Tops In Every Respect

This Is a Retrospective View About the Origins and History of a Settlement House on the Lower East Side of New York City written by Jeanne Talpers, Daughter of Philip Schiff, a Social Work Pioneer, Who Attended Madison House as a Youngster and Grew Up to Become the Headworker in 1934.

Women, Settlements and Poverty

Written by Jerry D. Marx, Ph.D., Associate Professor, University of New Hampshire, Department of Social Work. This article uses primary source documents from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s to discuss women’s roles in the reconceptualization of poverty in America. It studies the belief drawn from colonial religion that poverty was a result of personal immorality and traces the changing public perception through the turn of the 20th century.

Hopkins, June, Ph.D.

June Hopkins, Ph.D. was Professor of History at Armstrong Atlantic State University in Savannah, GA from 1998 until her retirement in 2016. She received her B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, her M.P.A. from Pace University, her M.A. from California State University, Northridge, and her Ph.D. from Georgetown University. She specializes in U.S. social history…

Witte, Ernest

Ernest Witte (1904-1986) — Social Worker, Educator and Administrator Ernest Frederick Witte was a social work educator and administrator. In 1939,Ernest Witte was named the director of the University of Washington School of Social Work. Witte expands the curriculum, adopts a two-year master’s program and offers fieldwork experiences in community planning, juvenile justice, child…

Volker, William

William Volker — (April 1, 1859 – November 4, 1947): Successful businessman, philanthropist and community leader who participated actively in the creation of the nation’s first public welfare department in Kansas City, MO. Introduction: William Volker was an entrepreneur who turned a picture frame business into a multimillion-dollar empire and who then gave away his…

Towley, Louis H.

Louis H. Towley (1904-1959): Public Welfare Administrator and Professor of Social Work Introduction: Louis Towley held a number of administrative and supervisory positions in the field of public welfare in Minnesota during the 1930s and early 1940s. Towley’s work centered primarily on policy and procedural development by the state agencies that administered and integrated…

Sanger, Margaret

Margaret (nee: Higgins) Sanger risked scandal, danger, and imprisonment to challenge the legal and cultural obstacles that made controlling fertility difficult and illegal. Ms. Sanger viewed birth control as a woman’s issue and she was prepared to take on the medical establishment, the churches, the legislatures, and the courts. She was persuasive, tireless, single-minded, and unafraid of a fight. On October 16,1916 she opened a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, was arrested, and served thirty days for distributing information about contraceptives. From that experience, Sanger moved on to assume leadership of the struggle for free access to birth control. In 1921 she founded the American Birth Control League, the precursor to the Planned Parenthood Federation, and spent her next three decades campaigning to bring safe and effective birth control into the American mainstream.