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Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
Contributor(s): Bolden, Tonya (Author), Velasquez, Eric (Illustrator), Roberts, Cokie (Author)
ISBN: 0062572059     ISBN-13: 9780062572059
Publisher: HarperCollins
OUR PRICE:   $11.69  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2022
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Political
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Biography & Autobiography - Social Activists
- Juvenile Nonfiction | History - United States - Colonial & Revolutionary Periods
Dewey: 815
Physical Information: 0.41" H x 8.26" W x 11.74" (1.04 lbs) 128 pages
 
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Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of significant speeches, made both by those who held the reins of power and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Read the original words--sometimes abridged and sometimes in their entirety--that have shaped our cultural fabric. A Chicago Public Library Best Book!

A wide-ranging collection of speeches and a worthwhile resource for students of American history. --Booklist

A golden celebration of the multicultural voices who demand the U.S.--and the world--do better. --Kirkus

An important addition to American history collections. --School Library Journal

Introductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. Illustrations by award-winning artist Eric Velasquez illuminate what it was really like at each moment in history. This collection includes the following:

  • Patrick Henry, "Give Me Liberty or Give Me Death"
  • George Washington, Farewell Address
  • Red Jacket, "We Never Quarrel about Religion"
  • Frederick Douglass, "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
  • Sojourner Truth, "I Am a Woman's Rights"
  • Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
  • Theodore Roosevelt, "Citizenship in a Republic"
  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt, "The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear Itself"
  • Lou Gehrig, "Farewell to Baseball"
  • Langston Hughes, "On the Blacklist All Our Lives"
  • John Fitzgerald Kennedy, "We Choose to Go to the Moon"
  • Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream"
  • Fannie Lou Hamer, "I Question America"
  • Cesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton, "Women's Rights Are Human Rights"

Strong Voices includes a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrated journalist Cokie Roberts, as well as a timeline in the back of the book, along with letters to the reader from Tonya Bolden and Eric Velasquez.

Strong Voices is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history.