 | I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl Subjects: Polacheck Hilda Satt 1882–1967; Jews -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Biography; Chicago (Ill.) -- Biography; Hull-House (Chicago Ill.) -- Biography; Women -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Social reformers -- United States -- Biography; Women soci; Hilda Satt Polacheck's family emigrated from Poland to Chicago in 1892, bringing their old-world Jewish traditions with them into the Industrial Age. Throughout her career as a writer and activist, Polacheck never forgot the immigrant neighborhoods, markets, and scents and sounds of Chicago's West Side. In charming and colorful prose, Polacheck recounts her introduction to American life and the Hull-House community; her chance meeting with Jane Addams and their subsequent long friendship and working relationship; her marriage; her support of civil rights and women's suffrage; her work with the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom; and her experiences as a writer for the Works Progress Administration. Hilda Satt Polacheck (1882-1967) was a writer, activist, and teacher. Dena J. Polacheck Epstein (d. 2013) is the author of Sinful Tunes and Spirituals: Black Folk Music to the Civil War . Lynn Y. Weiner is a professor emerita of history at Roosevelt University and the author of From Working Girl to Working Mother: The Female Labor Force in the United States, 1820-1980 . |
