Jane Addams
Awards & Honours
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Awards Won
6
Honours
1
Covers
3
Records
The Nobel Peace Prize is the headline, and the detail that makes it remarkable is that no American woman had won it before 1931. Addams was 71 when it came, at the end of a career that had already produced 12 books, a 13-building settlement complex and two international organizations. Yale's honorary M.A. in 1910 was the first the university gave a woman. She was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1973, and the Jane Addams Children's Book Award has carried her name since 1953. The National Endowment for the Humanities titled its profile of her "A Hero for Our Time," which is a fair summary of how institutions keep reaching for her.
Awards
Honours & Distinctions
National Women's Hall of Fame inductee
Inducted among the first class of honorees in Seneca Falls, New York.
Jane Addams Memorial Tollway
Interstate 90 through northern Illinois was named in her honor.
National Statuary Hall
Illinois honors her with a statue in the U.S. Capitol's National Statuary Hall Collection.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
The original Hull House buildings are preserved as a museum and historic site.
Jane Addams Children's Book Award
Annual award for children's books that advance peace and social justice.
Commemorative U.S. postage stamp
Addams appeared on a stamp in the Famous Americans series.
Magazine Covers
Good Housekeeping
1931
One of the Twelve Greatest Living American Women
Records & Feats
First American woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize
Awarded the 1931 prize jointly with Nicholas Murray Butler, the first time an American woman received it.
First woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale
Yale awarded her an honorary Master of Arts in 1910, its first honorary degree to a woman.
First woman to preside over the National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Elected president of the national body in 1909.