Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowingis 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.AChicagoPublic LibraryBest 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 worlddo 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 DeathGeorge Washington, Farewell AddressRed Jacket, We Never Quarrel about ReligionFrederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?Sojourner Truth, I Am a Womans RightsAbraham Lincoln, Gettysburg AddressTheodore Roosevelt, Citizenship in a RepublicFranklin Delano Roosevelt, The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is Fear ItselfLou Gehrig, Farewell to BaseballLangston Hughes, On the Blacklist All Our LivesJohn Fitzgerald Kennedy, We Choose to Go to the MoonMartin Luther King, Jr., I Have a DreamFannie Lou Hamer, I Question AmericaCesar Chavez, Address to the Commonwealth Club of California, 1984Hillary Rodham Clinton, Womens Rights Are Human RightsStrong 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.

 

 

This book is aimed at children at US 3rd grade+.

This book has been graded for interest at 8 years.

There are 128 pages in this book. This book was published in 2020 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

ERIC VELASQUEZ is the author and illustrator of The Price of Freedom , Grandma's Records and Grandma's Gift , a Pura Belpre Award winner. He is also the illustrator of The Piano Man , for which he won the Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe New Talent Award. Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She has won countless awards and in 2008 was named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Founding Mothers, Ladies of Liberty, and, with her husband, the journalist Steven V. Roberts, From This Day Forward and Our Haggadah. Diane Goode is the illustrator of more than fifty beloved and critically acclaimed picture books, including the Caldecott Honor Book When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant. Inspired by the handwritten letters of the Founding Mothers, she begins with their quill and sepia handwriting and spins out the line to re-create their images and the remarkable events of their lives for a new generation of young readers. Tonya Bolden has written numerous, award winning books for kids, including Tell All the Children Our Story and Wake Up Our Souls.