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    Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
    Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
    Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
    Audiobook3 hours

    Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing

    Written by Tonya Bolden and Cokie Roberts

    Narrated by Prentice Onayemi and Lisa Reneé Pitts

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    About this audiobook

    ""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

    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. 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.

    Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateFeb 11, 2020
    ISBN9780062969088
    Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing
    Author

    Tonya Bolden

    Tonya Bolden is a critically acclaimed award-winning author/co-author/editor of more than two dozen books for young people. They include Finding Family which received two starred reviews and was a Kirkus Reviewsand Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year; Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl, a Coretta Scott King honor book and James Madison Book Award winner; MLK: Journey of a King, winner of a National Council of Teachers of English Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty, an ALSC Notable Children's Book, CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and winner of the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Middle Level Book Award. Tonya also received the Children's Book Guild of Washington, DC's Nonfiction Award. A Princeton University magna cum laude baccalaureate with a master's degree from Columbia University, Tonya lives in New York City. www.tonyaboldenbooks.com

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