Waging Peace: The Story of Jane Addams
- ISBN-10
- 1931798400
- ISBN-13
- 9781931798402
- Series
- Waging Peace
- Category
- Juvenile Nonfiction
- Pages
- 144
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2004
- Publisher
- Morgan Reynolds Pub
- Author
- Peggy Caravantes
Description
A biography of the Nobel Prize-winning woman who founded Hull House, one of the first settlement houses in the United States, and who championed public health, women's sufferage, the international peace movement, and helped found the NAACP.
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- 2015
- 320 pages
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- 2013
- 256 pages
- Paperback
- Allen & Unwin
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