From Charity to Social Work
Subtitle: Mary E. Richmond and the Creation of an American Profession
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 5, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252028755
Subjects: Social welfare & social services; Social Science; Biography / Autobiography; Sociology; USA; Social Work; United States - General; Women; Social Science / Philanthropy & Charity; Philanthropy & Charity; Social Scientists & Psychologists; 1861-1928; Biography; Richmond, Mary Ellen,; United States; Women social reformers; Women social workers
First sentence: On April 8, 1865, the eve of General Robert E. Lee's surrender of the Confederate Army at Appomattox, Lavinia Harris Richmond succumbed to tuberculosis that was raging through Baltimore some two hundred miles to the northeast.