Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing

by Various Authors, Lisa Renee Pitts (Read by), Prentice Onayemi (Read by), Tonya Bolden (Introduction), Cokie Roberts (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Introductions by acclaimed writer Tonya Bolden provide historical context and critical insights to the meaning and impact of every speech. 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.

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

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781094107363
Publisher:	HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date:	01/21/2020
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 1.50(h) x 5.00(d)
Age Range:	8 - 14 Years

About the Author

Tonya Bolden has authored/edited/co-authored more than ten books, among which are 33 Things Every Girl Should Know, And Not Afraid to Dare: The Stories of Ten African American Women, and Strong Men Keep Coming: The Book of African American Men. She lives in New York City.

Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson coanchored the weekly ABC interview program, This Week. She is the bestselling author of We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters, Ladies of Liberty, and Founding Mothers.