History's Greatest Speeches

Name: History's Greatest Speeches
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ISBN: 9781949661453

By Eleanor Roosevelt & Eva Peron &

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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.

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About Eleanor Roosevelt

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) became most widely known as the wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and thus the longest-serving First Lady in American history, but she was also an accomplished diplomat, civil rights advocate and a fierce campaigner for basic human rights around the globe.Easily one of the most admired Americans of the 20th century, Eleanor Roosevelt fundamentally altered the role of First Lady, often speaking on behalf of her husband due to his persistent health issues, and did not try to disguise when she disagreed with her husband on policy issues. After leaving the White House, Eleanor served as the US Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly from 1945-1952 and delivered the speech in this volume at the Sorbonne in Paris on September 28, 1948.

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Eva Peron

Maria Eva Duarte de Peron (1919-1952) was the wife of Argentinian President Juan Peron and was First Lady of Argentina from 1946 until her death in 1952.Upon her husband's ascendency to the nation's highest office, Eva Peron - or "Evita" as she was called by her many admirers - became enormously popular among working class Argentinians for her support and encouragement of labor unions. She became so popular, in fact, that in 1951, she announced her candidacy to become Vice President of Argentina, a move supported and encouraged by working class Argentinians known as descamisados or "shirtless ones."However, opposition to her candidacy from the upper classes and military leaders - coupled with her failing health - forced Eva to deliver the following radio address on August 31, 1951, reversing her decision to run for Vice President.Named the "Spiritual Leader of the Nation" on May 7, 1952, Eva Peron died just over two months later, on July 26th. Her funeral in Buenos Aires was attended by more than three million admirers.

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Ida B. Wells

Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) was an American journalist, teacher, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She helped found the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and spent her long career fighting against prejudice and promoting women's rights.Born into slavery in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Wells was freed at the end of the Civil War, but at 16, she lost both her parents and her infant brother in the 1878 yellow fever epidemic. She and her grandmother labored to support the family and Wells would go on to find work as a teacher and, soon afterwards, became a co-owner and writer for the Memphis Free Speech and Headlight newspaper.Wells spent much of her career as a reporter writing about the scourge of lynching. She created a widely circulated pamphlet called Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in all its Phases and became a target for her anti-lynching reporting. Her newspaper office was destroyed by a white mob, but Wells would continue to write, her articles being carried by Black-owned newspapers from coast-to-coast. Wells eventually moved to Chicago and remained an activist, writer, speaker and organizer for women's and civil rights for the rest of her life.The speech in this volume was delivered by Wells at the National Negro Conference, the forerunner to the NAACP, in New York City on May 31-June 1, 1909.