Tour Jane Addams Hull-House Museum to preview two special exhibits: Why Women Should Vote and True Peace: The Presence of Justice. Explore both floors of the Hull Mansion in beautiful 360-degrees. Click the speaker symbols throughout the museum for a guided tour or simply click and drag or look around for a self-guided tour. Get an inside look at the scale model of the 13-building complex, see Jane Addams’ Nobel Peace Prize, and much more. For use on computer, tablet, phone, or VR Headset.
Based on a 1910 essay written by Jane Addams, this exhibition explores the widespread grassroots national movement organized by American women demanding the right to vote and to be recognized as full citizens in the United States. As we approach the 2020 Centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution and look towards the 2020 presidential election, we reflect on questions of women’s leadership, electoral power, voice, racism within women’s movements and women’s power to impact civic affairs.
True Peace: The Presence of Justice
Take a look at the organizing legacy of women, women of color and queer communities of color in this exhibit featuring artist-activist Monica Trinidad and Sarah-Ji.
Over one hundred years ago, Jane Addams founded the American Women’s Peace Party to oppose World War I, which became the Women’s International League of Peace and Freedom (WILPF). Over 1,500 women traveled to the Hague to demand peaceful resolutions and more just alternatives to war. But what does women’s international peace organizing look like today?
About the Artists:
Monica Trinidad, a queer, Latinx artist and organizer born and raised on the South Side of Chicago. Her portraits of activist Benji Hart, Kelley Hayes, Byul Yoon, Mariam Kaba and Sarah-Ji highlight campaigns and movements in Chicago from 2014 through 2019 that have largely been led by Black and Brown women and young girls. She ties local resistance to police brutality and state violence to the broader struggle against war and militarism in the U.S. and abroad.
Sarah-Ji, prison abolitionist and community organizer, exhibits photographs that document the extensive social justice organizing in Chicago from the past ten years. Focusing on Black women in Chicago, her work serves as a powerful visual record of the legacy of resistance and activism of those who are often erased or rendered invisible.
Sarah-Ji and Monica Trinidad’s work demonstrate that Chicago organizers, primarily led by women and queer communities of color, have been building powerful, internationalist perspectives in their grassroots organizing work for a long time.
Thank you to Jane Addams Hull-House Museum for partnering with Arlington Heights Memorial Library, Aurora Public Library, Gail Borden Public Library, Schaumburg Township District Library and Reaching Across Illinois Library System (RAILS) to pilot these new virtual tours.