grace abbott

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born Nov. 17, 1878, Grand Island, Neb., U.S. died June 19, 1939, Chicago, Ill. U.S. social worker, public administrator, educator, and reformer. She graduated from Grand Island College and did graduate work at the University of Nebraska and the University of Chicago, receiving a Ph.D. in political science in 1909. In 1908 she began working at Jane Addams's Hull House in Chicago, where she cofounded the Immigrants' Protective League. As director of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1921-34), she fought to end child labour through legislation and restrictions on federal contracts. She worked to win public approval of a constitutional amendment prohibiting child labour; though submitted to the states in 1924, the amendment was never ratified. Her best-known book is The Child and the State (2 vol., 1938)
grace abbott

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    grace Ab·bott

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    /ˈgrās ˈabət/ /ˈɡreɪs ˈæbət/
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