Jane Adams

Jane Addams Even as a little girl in the serene community of Cedarville, in northern Illinois, Jane Addams was "busy with the old question eternally suggested by the inequalities of the human lot."(Pg.47 Ch.1) There were not many inequalities in Cedarville, but even there were poverty and frustration: the war widows, the desolate old couple who had lost all five of their sons, the farmers who were victims of the postwar depression, and the …

…spend some leisure time. It was in London that Jane Addams was reacquainted with the poor. Jane Addams was no longer confused about her future. She desperately wanted to understand the problems of the world and help the less fortunate. Jane believed that the poor along with those willing to help would be able to understand each other. More importantly she believed that the things people had in common were more important than their differences.