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Title:

TWO SISTERS FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE
A BIOGRAPHY OF GRACE AND EDITH ABBOTT

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ISBN 10:

0252071557

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9780252071553

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UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS

Pub. date:

21 July, 2003

Pages:

344

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During the first half of the 20th century Grace Abbott (1878-1939) and her sister Edith (1876-1957) worked tirelessly to correct many of our nation's most serious problems. This biography shows their lives and careers were inextricably woven into a dramatic partnership of ideas and action that challenged the prevailing norms of American society.

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Contemporaries of Jane Addams, tackled issues of suffrage, workers rights, child labor laws, juvenial deliquency, prostitution, and immigration. Grace worked with the U.S. Children's Bureau and Edith helped found the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration.

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University of Illinois Press

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