APPENDIX A
HISTORIAL FIGURES AND SOCIAL WELFARE
Historical Figures and Social Welfare paper:
Each student will submit a 5 page paper focusing on a historical figure related to social work and social welfare. Each student will select one historical social work figure who worked to address social challenges or problems such as neglected children, health care for the poor, oppression of women, racism, unemployment, immigration, etc., and provide a discussion about the figure’s historical setting, how the figure worked to address a social problem(s), and a comparison between how the social problem was evident at the time of the figure’s life and how it is currently evident (or not).
See appendix A for a list of possible historical social work figures, and the course Canvas page for a grading rubric. (10 points).
This is a list of possible social workers or reformers to be used for this assignment.
Some of these figures are not social workers, but they were reformers and as such represented what social work is all about since their actions were primarily consistent with the NSASW Code of Ethics that mandate that social workers do work to promote efforts to “improve the well-being of society” (NASW, section 17).
Please feel free to consider others, especially persons who represent oppressed population, but confer with this professor prior to your research if you choose someone who is not on the list.
It is important that you choose a figure who has sufficient information written about them in order to meet the requirements of the assignment.
| 1. Edith or Grace Abbott
2. Jane Addams 3. Saul Alinsky 4. Susan B. Anthony 5. Mary McLoud Bethune 6. Harriet Stanton Blatch 7. Julian Bond 8. Charles Loring Brace 9. Sophonisba Breckinridge 10. Carrie Chapman Catt 11. Cesar Chavez 12. Shirley Chisholm 13. Angela Davis 14. Dorothy Day 15. Eugene Debs 16. Morris Dees 17. Dorothea Dix 18. W.E.B. DuBois
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19. Marian Wright
Edelman 20. Mark Parker Follett 21. Betty Friedan 22. Emma Goldman 23. Fannie Lou Hammer 24. Michael Harrington 25. Dorothy Irene Height 26. Harry Hopkins 27. Mary Harris Jones 28. Francis Kelley 29. Paul U. Kellogg 30. Yuri Kochiyama 31. Julia Lathop 32. Harvey Milk 33. Patsy Takemoto Mink 34. Luisa Moreno 35. Lucretia Mott 36. Daniel Patrick Moynihan
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37. Alice Paul
38. Frances Perkins 39. Dorothy Pittman-Hughes 40. A. Philip Randolph 41. Jeannette Rankin 42. Mary Richmond 43. Margaret Sanger 44. Elizabeth Cady Stanton 45. Ellen Gates Starr 46. Gloria Steinem 47. Lillian Wald 48. Ida B. Wells-Barnett 49. Victoria Woodhull 50. Francis Wright |
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Ida Bell Wells-Barnett: A Prominent Social Worker in History of United States
Wells-Barnett Bibliography
Wells-Barnett was a born of two slavers, James Wells and Lizzie Wells, at a place within Holly Springs, Mississippi on 16 July 1862 (A&E Television Networks, LLC, 2016).
Although Wells family, together with other African Americans in the Confederate States, had been decreed free under the system of the Union several months before Wells-Barnett birth, they still faced various forms of racial prejudices as well as being restricted by discriminatory practice ad rules while dwelling in Mississippi.
Some of the influential insights to become an outspoken social worker in her journalistic activism were her parents’ involvement in advocating against racism.
James and Lizzie were both active members of the Republican Party when Reconstruction had taken the course. James also involved himself with anti-racism initiative, Freedman’s Aid Society, which helped in starting a school set for newly freed slaves, Shaw University, where he served on its first board of trustees and Wells-Barnett joined for studies.
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