Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy

Written by Judith Bloom Fradin and Dennis Brindell Fradin

Grade:

5-6

ISBN-13:

978-0618504367

Publisher:

Clarion (2006)

This biography introduces upper elementary and middle school-aged students to the tireless and resourceful civic heroine, Jane Addams (1860-1935), whose life was devoted to helping others realize the American promises of opportunity and possibility. She is primarily remembered for her work to aid immigrants with the establishment of Hull House in Chicago. She also advocated for women’s suffrage and then civil rights (helping to found the NAACP), and worked for international peace in the early twentieth century, receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1935.