Jane Addams and Hull House Founder’s Peace and Charity Work
Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago to aid immigrants with education, childcare, job skills, and community programs serving about 2,000 weekly. She led peace efforts as founder and first president of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and chaired the International Committee of Women for a Permanent Peace.
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Hull-House
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Young Heroes Club
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Women’s International League For Peace and Freedom
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Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence
Alice Thacher Post
International Congress of Women
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Jane Addams Awards Honor Peaceful Children’s Books
The Jane Addams Children’s Book Awards recognize yearly titles that promote peace and social justice. Winners include biographies of heroes and stories of youth seeking freedom. Jane Addams died in Chicago in May 1935 at age 74 and is buried in Cedarville, Illinois.
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Mini Page Heroes chapter excerpt promoting 50 American Heroes
An issued Mini Page Heroes item previews a chapter from 50 American Heroes Every Kid Should Meet by Dennis Denenberg and Lorraine Roscoe. It lists purchase options online at heroes4us.com and hullhousemuseum.org and references library titles about Jane Addams by Kishel and Fradin Brindell Fradin.
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Dennis Denenberg
Lorraine Roscoe
Heroes4us.com
Hullhousemuseum
Jane Addams
Ann-Marie Kishel
Judith Bloom Fradin
Dennis Brindell Fradin
Mini Page credits mentors and heroes for feature
The Mini Page thanks Dennis Denenberg for his roles as teacher principal superintendent and professor and Lorraine Roscoe, a champion of heroes of every kind, for help with this issue and notes a teaching guide link for standards based activities.
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Dennis Denenberg
Lorraine Roscoe
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