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Social Work Pioneers
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Social Work Pioneers
This paper focuses on four African-American pioneers in social work.
1,121 words (approx. 4.5 pages) |
5 sources |
APA | 2008
Paper Summary:
The paper discusses the lives and achievements of Jane Addams, Roger Cummings, Whitney Young Jr. and Sara A Collins Fernandis, four African-American social workers. The paper relates how their achievements brought opportunity and rights to groups of individuals who were denied such things in the past. The paper looks at the implications their work has had for modern day social work practice.From the Paper:
"Jane Addams was born in Cedarville, Illinois, and lived until 1935, when she passed away I while living in Chicago, Illinois. The most prominent event that Jan Addams is remembered for is founding the Settlement House Movement. This was initiated when she founded the Hull house in the poverty stricken streets of Chicago in 1889. Also of note, she was the first American woman to ever receive the Nobel Peace Prize."Sample of Sources Used:
- No Author Given (2001). Jane Addams biography. Women in History, retrieved 6/18/2007 from Lakewood Public Library, http://www.lkwdpl.org/wiohio/adda-jan.htm.
- No Author Given (2004). Roger Cummings biography. National Association of Social Workers Foundation , retieved 6/18/2007 from http://www.naswfoundation.org/pioneers/c/cummings.htm.
- No Author Given (2007). Whitney M. Young Jr. biography. National Association of Social Workers, retrieved 6/18/2007 from http://www.socialworkers.org/diversity/black_history/young.asp.
- No Author Given (2006). Whitney Moore Young Jr. biography. Encyclopedia of World Biography, retrieved 6/18/2007 from http://www.bookrags.com/biography/whitney-moore-young-jr/.
- No Author Given (2007). Sara A. Collins Fernandis biography. National Association of Social Workers Foundation, retrieved 6/18/2007 from http://www.socialworkersfoundation.org/pioneers/f/fernandis.htm.
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Social Work Pioneers (2012, January 15). Retrieved February 12, 2012, from http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Social-Work-Pioneers/107464
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"Social Work Pioneers" 15 January 2012. Web. 12 Feb. 2012. <http://www.academon.com/Term-Paper-Social-Work-Pioneers/107464>
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