The Birth of Social Work

In 1905 Jane Adam was appointed to Chicago's Board of Education and became chair of the school management committee. She served on the Board of Education for four years and this is actually a situation where her path of finding a middle ground Really put her at odds with some of the people she was advocating for Her position on teacher pay was that they should find a compromise, but teachers pay was already extremely low. A lot of teachers felt like she was not doing enough and that her effort to reach a compromise was a cop-out In 1909 the NAACP was founded we mentioned that in the previous podcast briefly And it was in part as a response to a race riot in Springfield, Illinois the year before the end