Grace Abbott Biography

Occup.	Activist
From	USA
Born	November 17, 1878 Grand Island, Nebraska
Died	June 19, 1939 Chicago, Illinois
Cause	Influenza
Aged	60 years

Grace Abbott (1878-1939) was a prominent American social radical as well as supporter for immigrant rights. Born in Grand Island, Nebraska, on November 17, 1878, Abbott was the little girl of Othman Abbott, a legal representative and also lieutenant guv of Nebraska, and also Elizabeth M. Griffin Abbott. She was one of four sisters, two of whom also came to be prominent social employees.

Abbott received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Nebraska in 1901 and then took place to research at the University of Chicago, where she earned a Master of Arts in Political Science in 1909. After completing her research studies, Abbott instructed social sciences at the University of Chicago for several years before signing up with the Chicago School of Civics and also Philanthropy in 1911.

As a social worker, Abbott focused on problems related to youngster welfare, immigration, and labor legal rights. She ended up being a noticeable leader in the defend the rights of immigrants as well as aided form nationwide plan on these problems throughout her lifetime. Her job as the head of the U.S. Children's Bureau from 1921 to 1934 assisted develop the agency as a leading advocate for kid well-being.

Abbott authored several influential publications, consisting of The Immigrant and also the Community (1917) as well as The Child as well as the State (1938). She was likewise an active member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and also worked to promote civil rights for African Americans.

Throughout her job, Abbott obtained countless honors and also honors for her work on behalf of social justice. She was inducted right into the Nebraska Hall of Fame in 1965, and also in 1991, the U.S. Postal Service released a stamp commemorating her tradition.

Abbott died on June 19, 1939, in Chicago, after experiencing a heart attack. She was 60 years of ages at the time of her death. Her job as a social radical as well as supporter for immigrant and youngster welfare remains to inspire community service today.

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5 Famous quotes by Grace Abbott

"Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time"

"The jam is moving toward the Capitol where Congress sits in judgment on all the administrative agencies of Government"

"Sometimes when I get home at night in Washington I feel as though I had been in a great traffic jam"

"I stand on the sidewalk watching it because the responsibility is mine and I must, I take a very firm hold on the handles of the baby carriage and I wheel it into the traffic"

"The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a democracy and working children could not attend school"