HarperCollins Strong Voices
HarperCollins Strong Voices

Strong Voices

By Tonya Bolden

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Publication Date: February 1, 2022

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This important account of the fifteen speeches that shaped and defined America with three starred reviews is now available in paperback. Also includes a powerful new letter by acclaimed author Tonya Bolden!

Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing is a collection of speeches that showcases the voices of those at the reins of power, and of those who are not, at flashpoints 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 AddressRed 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 AddressTheodore 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, 1984Hillary Rodham Clinton, “Women’s Rights Are Human Rights”Strong Voices includes a foreword by #1 New York Times bestselling author and celebrated journalist, the late Cokie Roberts, as well as a powerful letter from author Tonya Bolden.Strong Voices is a tremendous introduction to the extraordinary words spoken in history.

About the Author

Tonya Bolden’s books have earned much praise and numerous starred reviews. Her work has been recognized with the NCTE Orbis Pictus Award for Outstanding Nonfiction for Children; CBC/NCSS Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People, and the NCSS Carter G. Woodson Middle Level Book Award, and she is the recipient of the Children’s Book Guild of Washington, DC’s Nonfiction Award for her body of work. Maritcha: A Nineteenth-Century American Girl was a Coretta Scott King Author Honor book.Eric Velasquez has illustrated numerous children’s books, most recently Schomburg: The Man Who Built a Library, by Carole Boston Weatherford. He won the Pura Belpre illustrator award for his illustrations in Grandma’s Gift. He won the John Steptoe New Talent Illustrator Award for his illustrations of The Piano Man, written by Debbi Chocolate. Bolden and Velasquez previously collaborated on the picture book Beautiful Moon.

Format: Paperback

Length: 128 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins

Publication Date: February 1, 2022

ISBN: 9780062572059

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