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FROM SETTLEMENT HOUSES TO NEIGBORHOOD CENTERS: A HISTORY OF

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• Settlement is a multipurpose community center for poor people living in crowded urban communities. Settlement provides English courses for child care, nursing services and immigration. Most villages have volunteers. Jane Addams and its volunteers actually live in Hull House and are working hard to help them. Adams explained the main purpose of settlement as "helping people from foreigners to keep their past lives and help out reaching better Americans".

In 1889, Jane Adams and Ellen Gates Star established the first settlement in America, the oldest mansion in Halstead, the poorest immigrant slums in Chicago. And horn of pork street. A settlement called the Hull House offers many activities and services including health and childcare, children and adult clubs, art galleries, kitchens, gyms, music schools, theaters, libraries, employment agencies and labor museums. By 1910, the United States established a settlement of 400; the majority of settlement workers were women.

In 1909, the NAWSA member Frances Squires Potter from Chicago proposed the establishment of a voting rights community center called "political solution". Their purpose reminiscent of social villages like the Hall House of Chicago is to educate the public about the actual details of voting rights and the political activities at the local level. The political solution established by the WSP includes a suicide school that provides training to speak in public for the vicarious rights organizer. Meanwhile, the public's feelings for voting rights have been greatly improved. Working for middle class women is a wonderful activity. By 1910, the number of NAWSA members has increased to 117,000. NAWSA established the first headquarters in New York City. This was previously operated mainly at the official's home.