Audiobooks by Tonya Bolden

Strong Voices: Fifteen American Speeches Worth Knowing

"''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 world—do better.'' —Kirkus ''An important addition to American history collections.'' —School Library Journal 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 didn’t, 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 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” 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. Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook."

Cokie Roberts, Tonya Bolden (Author), Lisa Renee Pitts, Prentice Onayemi (Narrator)

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Saving Savannah

"Savannah is lucky. The daughter of upper-class African-American parents in Washington D.C. in 1919, she lives luxuriously, with an elite education and her pick of the young men in her set. But lately the structure of her society—the croquet games, the Sunday teas, the pretentiousness—has felt suffocating. When she meets a young man from the working class named Lloyd, Savannah has a chance to see how the “other half” lives. Saddened by their situation, she is motivated to make a true difference. But suffragist lectures and socialist meetings are a radical interest for a young girl from society, and Savannah must find a way—her way—to change the world. Deeply relevant and emotionally resonant for a modern audience, this searing story reveals a girl becoming a woman in a world on the brink of sweeping change."

Tonya Bolden (Author), Robin Eller (Narrator)

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Dark Sky Rising: Reconstruction and the Dawn of Jim Crow (Scholastic Focus)

"Henry Louis Gates, Jr. presents a journey through America's past and our nation's attempts at renewal in this look at the Civil War's conclusion, Reconstruction, and the rise of Jim Crow segregation. This is a story about America during and after Reconstruction, one of history's most pivotal and misunderstood chapters. In a stirring account of emancipation, the struggle for citizenship and national reunion, and the advent of racial segregation, the renowned Harvard scholar delivers a book that is illuminating and timely. Real-life accounts drive the narrative, spanning the half century between the Civil War and Birth of a Nation. Here, you will come face-to-face with the people and events of Reconstruction's noble democratic experiment, its tragic undermining, and the drawing of a new 'color line' in the long Jim Crow era that followed. In introducing young readers to them, and to the resiliency of the African American people at times of progress and betrayal, Professor Gates shares a history that remains vitally relevant today."

Henry Louis Gates Jr., Tonya Bolden (Author), Dion Graham (Narrator)

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The Emancipation Proclamation: Lincoln and the Dawn of Liberty

"Published on the anniversary of when President Abraham Lincoln's order went into effect, this book offers listeners a unique look at the events that led to the Emancipation Proclamation. Filled with little-known facts and fascinating details, it includes excerpts from historical sources and new research that debunk myths about the Emancipation Proclamation and its causes. Complete with a timeline, glossary, and bibliography, Emancipation Proclamation is an engrossing new historical resource from award-winning children's book author Tonya Bolden."

Tonya Bolden (Author), Michael Early (Narrator)

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Facing Frederick: The Life of Frederick Douglass, a Monumental American Man

"Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) is best known for the telling of his own emancipation. But there is much more to Douglass's story than his time spent enslaved and his famous autobiography. Facing Frederick captures the whole complicated and, at times, perplexing person that he was. Statesman, suffragist, writer, and newspaperman, this book focuses on Douglass the man rather than the historical icon."

Tonya Bolden (Author), Adam Lazarre-White (Narrator)

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