Strong voices : fifteen American speeches worth knowing

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  • Contributor:

    Bolden, Tonya

    ,

    Roberts, Cokie

    ,

    Velasquez, Eric

    ,

    Pitts, Lisa Renee

    ,

    Onayemi, Prentice

    Summary:

    A collection of significant speeches by those who held the reins of power, and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Hear 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.

    Contents:
    • 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"
    • Notes
    • Timeline.
    Genre: Discursive works, Juvenile nonfiction
    Original Publisher: [New York] , HarperCollins
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781094107363

    ,

    1094107360

    ,

    9781094107370

    ,

    1094107379

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DC Contributor

Bolden, Tonya

Roberts, Cokie

Velasquez, Eric

Pitts, Lisa Renee

Onayemi, Prentice

Abstract

A collection of significant speeches by those who held the reins of power, and those who didn't, at significant times in American history. Hear 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.

Genre
Discursive works
Juvenile nonfiction
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[New York]

HarperCollins

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