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Addams

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Ad·dams  (dmz), Charles Samuel 1912-1988.
American cartoonist known for the macabre humor and Gothic settings of his cartoons, many of which first appeared in the New Yorker.

Addams, Jane 1860-1935.
American social reformer and pacifist who founded Hull House (1889), a care and education center for the poor of Chicago, and worked for peace and many social reforms. She shared the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize.


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Seventy years after her death, Jane Addams is honored as a humanitarian and winner of a Nobel Peace Prize, but the Fradins remind us that she was bitterly despised as well as internationally admired during her long lifetime.
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