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= **Lillian Wald** = //"Women more than men can strip war of its glamor and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong."// //Lillian Wald, reformer and peace activist, 1914 //

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 * Background Information**
 * Worked as a nurse, teacher, author, editor, and public health official.
 * Lillian was an activist for and believe firmly in peace, women's, children's and civil rights.
 * She was one of the founders of American community nursing.
 * She was born in a German-Jewish middle class family on March 10th, 1867.
 * I went to "Miss Cruttenden's English-French Boarding and Day School for Young Ladies" for an education.
 * At 16, she went to the School of Nursing in New York's Hospital.
 * She is quoted saying //"Women more than men can strip war of its glamour and its out-of-date heroisms and patriotisms, and see it as a demon of destruction and hideous wrong."//
 * Problem**
 * She believed that African Americans are treated very unfairly. They should be treated the same as white people. But they weren't.
 * She did not believe that women were given the best working conditions. They do not have nearly as nice as a working facility that the men had in her eyes.
 * Child Labor was also a very big problem to Wald. She did not think that children should be forced or allowed to do the work that adults had to do.
 * She saw that mothers and daughters had more to learn about home nursing, sewing, and cooking.
 * Solution (In respectable order to above)**
 * She thought that all Henry Street Classes should be racially integrated to unite the black students with the white.
 * For women's working conditions, She founded the Women's Trade Union League, which helped to eliminate the sweatshop conditions, and then served in the executive committee of the NYC League.
 * She thought that all children should be allowed to attend school to decrease child labor.
 * She founded the Henry Street Settlement to educate them and provide some activities for the children and their families.
 * Sources**
 * "Be Inspired - Famous Quotes from Women Throughout History." //Biography.com//. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. .
 * Service. "Visiting Nurse Service of New York - Lillian Wald." //Visiting Nurse Service of New York//. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. .
 * Brody, Seymour "Sy". "Lillian Wald." //Jewish Virtual Library - Homepage//. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. .
 * "Lillian Wald - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." //Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia//. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Sept. 2011. .