Claremont Colleges Scholarship @ Claremont Scripps Senior Theses Scripps Student Scholarship 2016 A Model For Empowerment: Lugenia Burns Hope’s Community Vision Through the Neighborhood Union Madeleine Pierson Scripps College Recommended Citation Pierson, Madeleine, "A Model For Empowerment: Lugenia Burns Hope’s Community Vision Through the Neighborhood Union" (2016). Scripps Senior Theses. Paper 890. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/scripps_theses/890 This Open Access Senior Thesis is brought to you for free and open access by the Scripps Student Scholarship at Scholarship @ Claremont. It has been accepted for inclusion in Scripps Senior Theses by an authorized administrator of Scholarship @ Claremont. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A MODEL FOR EMPOWERMENT: LUGENIA BURNS HOPE’S COMMUNITY VISION THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD UNION by MADELEINE WATERS PIERSON SUBMITTED TO SCRIPPS COLLEGE IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS PROFESSOR ROBERTS PROFESSOR LISS APRIL 15, 2016 TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 3 CHAPTER ONE ANSWERING A CALL: LUGENIA BURNS HOPE’S MOTIVATIONS TO PURSUE SOCIAL WORK 15 CHAPTER TWO “THE PERSONAL IS POLITICAL”: THE IMPACT OF HOPE’S PERSONAL BELIEFS ON HER VISION FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD UNION 45 CHAPTER THREE THE INFLUENCE OF RESPECTABILITY POLITICS ON CREATING CLASS TENSION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD UNION 71 CONCLUSION 89 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 94 BIBLIOGRAPHY 96 2 INTRODUCTION I first encountered Lugenia Burns Hope in historian Tera Hunter’s book, To 'Joy My Freedom: Southern Black Women's Lives and Labors after the Civil War. Hope stood out to me because she previously worked at the settlement house, Hull House, in Chicago. Progressive Era reformer Jane Addams founded Hull House in 1889 to offer basic and extracurricular services to the city’s poor and working class immigrants, struggling to adjust as rapid industrialization and urbanization created strenuous work environments and decrepit living conditions.