Flying with Jane Addams

Technical difficulties has stopped my ability to schedule posts. This post about Jane Addams was supposed to be for tomorrow, but it disappeared! So I am posting it now. There will not be a post tomorrow. Hopefully the issue will be resolved and my other posts will post as planned. That being said, this will probably post several times at some point!

September 6th is Jane Addams' birthday. Have you heard of her? She was the first woman to receive the first honorary degree from Yale in 1910. She was the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize in 1931! Unfortunately, she entered the hospital on the day it was awarded. She died shortly after. We need to know about Jane. Before women's suffrage she believed that women should make their voices heard in legislation and therefore should have the right to vote, but more comprehensively, she thought that women should generate aspirations and search out opportunities to realize them.

We need to thank Jane. In 1915, she accepted the chairmanship of the Women's Peace Party, an American organization, and four months later the presidency of the International Congress of Women convened at The Hague largely upon the initiative of Dr. Aletta Jacobs, a Dutch suffragist leader of many and varied talents. When this congress later founded the organization called the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, Jane Addams served as president until 1929, as presiding officer of its six international conferences in those years, and as honorary president for the remainder of her life.

She openly opposed America's entry into the war. She was attacked in the press and expelled from the Daughters of the American Revolution, (remember good women never make history!). She found an outlet for her humanitarian impulses as an assistant to Herbert Hoover in providing relief supplies of food to the women and children of the enemy nations, the story of which she told in her book Peace and Bread in Time of War (1922). Thank you Jane! Read more about her at http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1534169/jane_addams_nobel_peace_prize_winner.html?cat=37