Jessie
Binford was
born in 1876.
She moved to Chicago
and in 1906 became a resident at the Hull
House Settlement. Ten years later she became
director of Juvenile Protective Association.
A post she was to hold for thirty-six years. In the 1960s Binford
led the campaign against the closure of Hull House. When Binford died
in 1966 she had lived in the settlement for sixty years.

Jessie Binford teaching two children to read.


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