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Title:

Strong voices : fifteen American speeches worth knowing / introductions by Tonya Bolden ; foreword by Cokie Roberts ; illustrated by Eric Velasquez.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

125 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm

Subject:

Speeches, addresses, etc., American--Juvenile literature.
Rhetoric--United States--Juvenile literature.

Other Authors:

Bolden, Tonya, writer of introduction.
Roberts, Cokie, writer of foreword.
Velasquez, Eric, illustrator.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 124-125).

Contents:

Women's rights are human rights / Hillary Rodham Clinton. Farewell address / George Washington -- We never quarrel about religion / Red Jacket -- What to the slave is the Fourth of July? / Frederick Douglass -- I am a woman's rights / Sjourner Truth -- Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln -- Citizenship in a Republic / Theodore Roosevelt -- The only thing we have to fear is fear itself / Franklin Delano Roosevelt -- Farewell to baseball / Lou Gehrig -- On the blacklist all our lives / Langston Hughes -- We choose to go to the moon / John Fitzgerald Kennedy -- I have a dream / Martin Luther King Jr. -- I question America / Fannie Lou Hamer -- Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984 / Cesar Chavez -- Women's rights are human rights / Hillary Rodham Clinton.

Summary:

"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 didnt, at significant times in American history. Read the original wordssometimes abridged and sometimes in their entiretythat 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."-- provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0062572040
9780062572042

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1136057357

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