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The Settlement Movement Work cited page at the end of the report.

Date Submitted: 03/17/2003 23:09:59
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The settlement movement began with the founding of Toynbee Hall, in East London in 1884. The Anglican clergyman Samuel Augustus Barnett and a group of Oxford men joined him and his wife in "settling" in a deprived area of the city. "In residing among the poor, they would become neighbors and friends, sharing the concerns of the district and the cultural advantages of their fortunate birth and education" (Carson, 1). The movement spread to the United States …

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…ris, D. JEWISH PHILANTHROPY: An Exposition of Principles and Methods of Jewish Social Service in the United States. Montclair, New Jersey: The Macmillan Company and Patterson Smith Publishing Corporation, 1969. Carson, Mina. SETTLEMENT FOLK: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1990. Davis, Allen, F. SPEARHEAD FOR REFORM: The Social Settlements and the Progressive Movement. New York: Oxford University Press, 1967. Yezierska, Anzia. Arrogant Beggar. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1996.

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