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Clinton, Chelsea Dennis, David J. Knight, Louise W. Long, Michael G. Reed, Kim Stone, Tanya Lee.Knight, Louise W.
Summary: Jane Addams (1860-1935) was one of the leading figures of the Progressive era. This "pragmatic visionary," as Knight calls her, is best known as the creator of Hull House, a model settlement house offering training, shelter, and culture for Chicago's poor. Addams also involved herself in a long list of Progressive campaigns. Her rhetorical skills as both speaker and writer made her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADDAMS, JANE KNIReed, Kim
Summary: "For years, Kim's day job was a social worker to the home-bound elderly in Brooklyn Heights. Then she'd scramble into Manhattan to make her hostess shifts at Babbo, where even the Pope would have trouble scoring a reservation, and Gwyneth Paltrow and RyanReynolds squeezed through the jam-packed entryway like everyone else. Despite her sometimes fifteen-hour days, Kim couldn't make ends meet, up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Books 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 REED, KIM REEStone, Tanya Lee.
Summary: "Ever since she was a little girl, Jane Addams hoped to help people in need. She wanted to create a place where people could find food, work, and community. In 1889, she chose a house in a run-down Chicago neighborhood and turned it into Hull House--a settlement home--soon adding a playground, kindergarten, and a public bath, By 1907, Hull House included thirteen buildings. And by the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2015
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ADDClinton, Chelsea
Summary: Profiles the lives of thirteen American women who have left their mark on U.S. history, including Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Margaret Chase Smith, and Oprah Winfrey.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J920 CLIDennis, David J.
Summary: "A dynamic family exchange that pivots between the voices of a father and son, The Movement Made Us is a unique work of oral history and memoir, chronicling the extraordinary story of the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and its living legacy embodied in Black Lives Matter. David Dennis Sr, a core architect of the movement, speaks out for the first time, swapping recollections both harrowing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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Summary: "This powerful and triumphant picture book biography tells the story of Bayard Rustin, an openly gay civils rights leader, who, with the support of Dr. King and future congressman John Lewis, led 250,000 people to the doorstep of the U.S. government demanding change"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little Bee Books 2023