Race, Hull-House, and the University of Chicago: A New Conscience Against Ancient Evils - Hardcoverby Mary Jo Deegan (Author) Connecting the views of the Hull House and early Chicago sociologists to issues of race and gender, Deegan offers a new perspective on race relations in Chicago from 1892 until 1960. She challenges the assumption that race relations activists had to choose either to align with W. E. B. DuBois or Booker T. Washington if they studied American race relations. Questioning the established accounts concerning the so called Chicago