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Birth of Jane Addams

6 September 1860

American feminist social activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, philosopher, and writer (1860–1935). Jane Addams was born on 6 September 1860 in what is now the United States. Jane Addams is remembered as a journalist, philosopher and writer, a citizen of the United States.

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