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This article discusses the intellectual and religious influences that contributed to the settlement movement in the United States of America. The author shows that neither intellectuals close to the movement, nor its founder Jane Addams, seem to have challenged the segregation of colored people prevalent at that time. However, influences from the Social Gospel movement and from a loosely formed body of doctrines about evolution did have an impact on black leaders involved in social settlements and similar structures working in the ghettos of the northern industrial cities and in the south.