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and, in 1910, achieved passage of Women's League sponsored compulsory education. McMain worked closely with Jean Gordon and Kate Gordon in these endeavors. During her tenure, Kingsley House established a
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Kingsley House, and their faculty and students worked there. Also that year, she helped prepare the charter of the New Orleans Central Council of Social Agencies, the forerunner of the local
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Association, and in this role she publicized the findings of the housing survey, resulting in public attention to substandard urban living conditions. In 1905, McMain led a clean-up and education campaign to help eradicate the
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Jane Addams occasionally visited
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