Some of the other activities that Sophie was passionate
about were Hull House, the first major United States settlement house (where
she lived), Chicago’s Immigrants Protective League, the League of Women Voters and
the Women’s Peace Party.
Probably the most important role she played was as the first
women ever to be a delegate to the major international conference, the
Pan-American Congress in 1933. The Montevideo Convention on the Rights and Duties of States was a treaty signed at Montevideo, Uruguay, on December 26, 1933,
during the Seventh International
Conference of American States.
Sophie authored
many books on children, family and public welfare, including “The Stepfather in
the Family,” “Truancy and Non-attendance in the Chicago Schools,” “Public
Welfare Administration,” “The Illinois Adoption Law and its Administration,” “Women
in the Twentieth Century: a study of their political, social and economic
activities” and “The Modern Household.”
Did you
ever hear about Sophie in history class?
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