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The most profound and important speeches ever delivered are here collected in this anthology, featuring some of the most influential women in world history. Fort Raphael Publishing has here collected seven of the most important and iconic speeches of all time, all of which were written and delivered by the most important women of their respective eras.
From Ida B. Wells powerful condemnation of the scourge of lynching to Eva Peron's renunciation of the Vice Presidency of Argentina, these speeches were among the most influential, important and moving speeches ever delivered.In addition to Ida B. Wells and Evita, this volume also features the labor leader Mother Jones, suffragist Nellie McClung, women's rights pioneer Carrie Chapman Catt, physicist and Nobel Prize-winning scientist Marie Curie, and the United States' longest serving First Lady and human rights advocate Eleanor Roosevelt.
This collection of powerful and moving speeches pays tribute to these great world leaders and the words they used to inspire millions.
This is the second volume of this series.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was born in New York City on October 11, 1884. She married Franklin Delano Roosevelt on March 17, 1905, and was the mother of six children. She became First Lady on March 4, 1933, and went on to serve as Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly and Representative to the Commission on Human Rights under Harry S. Truman, and chairwoman of the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women under John F. Kennedy. She died on November 7, 1962, at the age of seventy-eight.
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Ida B. Wells
Ida B. Wells (1862–1931) was an African American journalist, activist, suffragist, and civil rights leader. Born a slave, Wells was freed, along with her parents, by Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. After being orphaned at age fourteen, she put herself through college while caring for her five siblings. Outraged by the prevalence of lynching, Wells wrote several pieces of investigative journalism that exposed the violent hypocrisy running rampant in the American South. Throughout her life, she fought tirelessly for justice and equality for African Americans.
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