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Article: Frances Kellor and the Americanization movement.(POINTS & VIEWPOINTS)(Report)
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- Social Work
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Social work's current concern with topics such as ethnic sensitive practice, immigration, diversity, and assimilation (de Silva, 2006; Marsh, 2004) marks a rebirth of interest in issues that once dominated the thinking of early social work pioneers (Addams, 1961). This article reconsiders the career of Frances Kellor, a social work leader who early in the early 20th century championed many progressive causes, particularly those involving the civil rights, protection, and education of immigrants (Higham, 1973).
At the peak of her influence in the decade leading up to and including World War I, Kellor was as well known nationally as such social work luminaries as ...