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unusual facts about settlement house



BronxWorks

BronxWorks is a human service organization and settlement house based in New York City’s Bronx borough that was founded as Citizens Advice Bureau in the Morris Heights section in 1972.

Molokan

When they arrived in Los Angeles, they were befriended by local settlement house director Dana W. Bartlett.

Rose Pastor Stokes

In July 1903, Pastor was assigned to interview J.G. Phelps Stokes, known to his friends as "Graham," a prominent businessman and supporter of a settlement house on the Lower East Side.


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George C. Stoney

He worked at the Henry Street Settlement House on the Lower East Side of NYC in 1938, as a field research assistant for Gunnar Myrdal and Ralph Bunche's project on Suffrage in the South in 1940, and as an information officer for the Farm Security Administration until he was drafted in 1942.

Mel King

In 1953, King left the classroom to work with at risk youth, becoming Director of Boy's Work at Lincoln House, a settlement house in Boston's South End community.

Sophonisba Breckinridge

Breckinridge worked with Vassar College graduate and social reformer Julia Lathrop, social gospel minister Graham Taylor (founder of the settlement house, Chicago Commons) and others to create the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, becoming its first (and only) dean.

Toni Cade Bambara

She also became interested in dance before completing her master's degree in American studies at City College, New York (from 1962), while serving as program director of Colony Settlement House in Brooklyn.