Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing, Bolden Tonya, Roberts Cokie

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 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 Womans 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, Womens 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.