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 Mc Clung, 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.
About the author
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.More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
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