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 JournalIntroductions 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.
