Jane Addams: Together We Rise - A Chicago Stories Documentary

Jane Addams was an activist ahead of her time. Within the walls of Hull House on the Near West Side, she led a social movement and amassed an army of women to demand change, pushing boundaries and breaking barriers along the way. Ultimately, Jane Addams and the women of Hull House changed their community, their city, and the world.
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[@henriomoeje8741]

First kindergarten school, first social worker, first workers compensation first juvenile court, first settlement house, etc. Jane Addams was indeed a pioneer.

[@chasr1843]

No joke! There's another nationwide first every few minutes.

[@alibobo2009]

It's wonderful that we have this woman as part of our American Heritage. It wasn't only her, though. Masses of people had an open heart and were willing to listen. It seems like masses of people are willing to listen to fear and oppression these days. Let's raise our voice. Let's wake up. Another Jane Adams will rise among us, I know it.

[@gerrythegr8]

There's plenty of Jane Adams already walking this earth,along with many others..We see their work everyday we just don't know it! And some great leaders and fighters are working behind the scenes,and some are still babies and children,but the Alpha Generation (kids born just prior to COVID and during COVID are fierce,unafraid, unapologetic and will be the ones to truly change this world for the better!

[@angelabluebird609]

@@gerrythegr8 There are many, but not plenty. @alibobo2009 is absolute right! We need to join in now, and ask our friends and families to do the same. Grass roots is how everything worthwhile starts and is accomplished. We can't leave it to one generation or the next. Striving for American Ideals is an all of us always endeavor.

[@robertafierro5592]

​​@@gerrythegr8I sure hope so. It's a very simple thing. Either you possess a concience or you don't. You'll know it when you're a child. The more confusing things get, the harder it becomes to decipher Good and Bad.

[@mauraramsay3301]

Untold stories

[@mauraramsay3301]

They paved the way!!! Thank God !!

[@shrimpflakes]

What an incredible story! She was like a jack of all trades when it came to social change.

[@mimusic1853]

Thank you WTTW♥️

[@robertafierro5592]

My favorite era in American History is this one. On the East Coast we had The Five Points..

[@grifidj1063]

I just wanna thank Jane Addams for giving way for Social Work to be a career path for people. Coming into my undergrad, I had no idea what I wanted to do until a friend suggested Social Work and I instantly fell in love with it! Just hearing the story of Jane Addams and how she pioneered this incredible career path is truly something to behold

[@badpepsi]

Yeah, I'm just coming into the field of study now and this story of American social justice pioneering is so inspirational. I'm in Australia just starting in BSW. Where you at?

[@mateegooknuh5988]

Same here! I’ll be graduating with my Masters in 2026

[@edwardhuster8466]

Wish the us house repersentives could get there life together. We need more Jane Adams in these days.

[@angelabluebird609]

We are free to phone bank/volunteer for/donate to any candidate for our U.S. Congress, regardless of which state we reside in. We can help unseat the hostile inadequates, and return genuine representation to Congress. We can join in the ongoing work to eliminate the poison intrusion of Big $ upon our elections/govt. It IS the causative factor in all our most serious challenges. Such civilized, civic action does not have to take lots of time, or even any $. The Move to Amend, People for the American Way, just a few of the quality groups of everyday people we can check out/join with. We can each choose something to work on, and ask our friends and families to do the same. This is how we reclaim our rightful place in our govt. of, for and by the People.

[@scherriebanks6238]

This documentary was amazing. So happy I watched it.

[@sujimtangerines]

I appreciate the balance injected to keep from painting Ms. Addams as a saint. She very well might have been seen as such by a multitude of people, but she did have faults. What makes her a role model is that she either recognized those aspects of her upbringing, schooling, personality or beliefs (or was confronted with them as pointed out by others) and really did make an effort to listen, reevaluate & adapt or change her effort to best fit the community she sought to serve. I once had lofty ambitions to be... Well, not Jane. But of being someone who might have been worthy enough to live at Hull House. And I find that the older I get the more I regret letting my own hardships get in the way of that ambition. I've tried to live by the motto, "I'd rather live to regret the things I've done than to regret never having done them." But I regret a few of the life choices that wore me down & killed that desire to change the world.

[@daydreamfuel5781]

Just wanted to let you know that I see you and I understand how hard it can be. I’m sure you’ve done more than you give yourself credit for. I don’t know you, but just from this comment I can say that I know you’re a good person and I’m proud of you.

[@sarahcoleman3125]

When you realize the narrator is James Earl Jones. 😢 We'll never forget your voice. ❤

[@jimtrack3786]

The fact that names such as Vanderbilt and Morgan, men who built their wealth on the backs of children should be remembered as icons in America's success, while Addams is nearly forgotten speaks volumes for the so called values of our ongoing society. Men like J.P. Morgan were the scum of the earth.

[@angelabluebird609]

Absolutely. We will say her name, and others, and teach her life, and others, so the young may also say her name and others!

[@lisapalmeno4488]

She's not forgotten, certainly not in Rockford, Illinois. More students learn about her than the robber barons.

[@jimtrack3786]

@@angelabluebird609 that is good to hear!

[@edwardhuster8466]

THE very 1st social worker.

[@Miguel_El_Chileno]

Bring back The Jane Addams Faction of the Abraham Lincoln Illinois Republican Party

[@gjackyroxas2720]

An American Treasure ❤❤❤

[@EdSmith-bq1ox]

Thank you for your honesty and for this video I appreciate it

[@davycodington1270]

Inspiring!

[@lisapalmeno4488]

Great documentary about a great lady from my alma mater, Rockford College, formerly Rockford Female Seminary, now Rockford University. Julia Lathrop, too. Go Regents!

[@edwardhuster8466]

When conservative Republican took over Washington. They branded her a radical. She was progressive not a radical.

[@johnadams5245]

isnt it funny how words used to demonize people, words have so much power man, like someones terrorists is another mans freedom fighter

[@meerkatmanorjr.2085]

She was hardly a progressive, wanting kids to have their baseline needs meant is in no way radical

[@MrRJMGREEN]

This inspired me to study social work. However, the pay was low, the case loads were astronomical, we were getting no funding for anything of any importance, it was the churches that came through in the long run. Today it is even worse. We can house, feed and give benefits to migrants who enter the country illegally. People are suffering.

[@Heyu7her3]

Would Jane Addams be considered the first American social worker? 🤔

[@Heyu7her3]

Aha! "Case work" comes from her.

[@josephjohnson9805]

Mother Clark is one from Chicago who was before her...

[@johnadams5245]

who is mother clark? @@josephjohnson9805

[@meerkatmanorjr.2085]

No, you should look into the history of socialism and social work in Chicago in the 1880s

[@andreadraper6533]

Can you imagine the abuse at the hands of severely disturbed criminals that these 200+ children in Cook County Jail endured?😢😓😭

[@Lalo-z3h]

Talk about real super women!! How the hell hasn't Steven Spielberg or other movie producers haven't made a movie about these incredible women!!!

[@Anonymous-rx4nr]

Not bad, she has my blessing.

[@andydrewlinger9301]

I would have been interesting to have Jane live another 3-5 years, at least, to see what her reaction(s) would have been to the full implementation of the New Deal programs. But that would have meant she was here for at least the early part of World War II; I wonder if at her advanced age she could have handled the heartbreak of that horrific conflagration--and across all of its fronts...military, economic, social, etc.

[@tundrawomansays694]

Jane was a great lady (and an adorable child!) I trust the younger people and believe in them. They have many great individuals among them who are doing incredible things every day. Sadly we rarely get beyond the vapid “People” magazine fodder.

[@robertafierro5592]

Can we look outside the box for a second? Some of these poor very young girls were also being taken advantage of by their older male superiors. This was a daily hell thats really undescribable today. Im not saying that thos happened everywhere all.the time, im sure there were some Employers who admonished that sort of thing, but what still.happens today was more prevalent back then with fewer consequences..

[@GillyWhitfootHaysend]

Her mother didn’t slip and fall. She had gone-on horseback-to help deliver a neighbor’s baby. Her mother went into premature labor.

[@paulazemeckis7835]

One of my female heros in American history. Although I must admit I never know she was homosexual. Great that she had her personal emotional needs met. I've been very pro-women since a child when I noticed my dad had male chauvinist pig qualities. He was born in 1927.

[@Imissyoulou]

A racist also. The sufferage movement was full of them.

[@katymahoney084]

I'm not defending them, but...that was the way of it back then, unfortunately. Luckily, we're definitely getting better. Not 100% but getting better. #eldermillinial ❤😘

[@cashmoney2898]

Why did the government bring all these people into the country without have sufficient resources.

[@meerkatmanorjr.2085]

Do you have a dog brain?

[@ashleykeith2636]

Capitalism! Of course! Cheap labor.

[@CesarDelgado-fu2nd]

😊

[@cashmoney2898]

She got more done than the government. They was not thinking about soveling any problems. but yet created them.

[@meerkatmanorjr.2085]

Wrong

[@cashmoney2898]

@@meerkatmanorjr.2085 what are you talking about.

[@meerkatmanorjr.2085]

While hull house did help children, they fully endorsed and supported the systems that enabled and created families that could not survive on their wages alone. It is abysmal that only rich kids get a legacy 🙄

[@tonyatalented4275]

❤😂❤😂🎉😊

[@schontell7988]

#werise2newclothing

[@nicholettepollard-dole1939]

i bet racist too ….