Addams was the first woman president of the National Conference of Social Work. A pacifist, she served as president of the International Congress of Women in 1915 and founded the Womanâs Peace Party, the predecessor to the Womenâs International League for Peace and Freedom. Addams was a recipient of the 1931 Nobel Prize for Peace.
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