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    • By: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 644 ratings
    • Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.

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    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one humid Mississippi night in 1966....

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    • America in the King Years 1963-65
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 29 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement....

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    • A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • By: Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrated by: Cary Hite
    • Length: 22 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates' prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King Jr.....

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    • America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
    • By: Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination....

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    • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    • By: David J. Garrow
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 34 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 211 ratings
    • Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • A Dream or a Nightmare
    • By: James H. Cone
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 14 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-16-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • This groundbreaking and highly acclaimed work examines the two most influential African American leaders of the twentieth century. While Martin Luther King, Jr., saw America as "essentially a dream . . . as yet unfulfilled," Malcolm X viewed America as a realized nightmare....

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    • The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
    • By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

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    • By: Robert F. Williams
    • Narrated by: John Riddle
    • Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups....

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    • Historic Moments in the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Leslie Odom Jr.
    • Length: 6 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 01-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • The essential moments of the civil rights movement are introduced and set in historical context by the author of the magisterial America in the King Years trilogy....

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    • A Narrative History of Black Power in America
    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality....

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    • America in the King Years, 1963-65
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Joe Morton, C.C.H. Pounder
    • Length: 6 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-00
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 109 ratings
    • In Pillar of Fire, the second volume of his America in the King Years trilogy, Taylor Branch portrays the civil rights era at its zenith....

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    • The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America
    • By: Ibram X. Kendi
    • Narrated by: Avery Kidd Waddell
    • Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • In this deeply researched and fast-moving narrative, Kendi chronicles the entire story of anti-black racist ideas and their staggering power over the course of American history....

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    • By: Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Hasan Kwame Jeffries
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-18-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Malcolm X. Marcus Garvey. Charles Hamilton Houston. Diane Nash. For every well-known figure of the Civil Rights Movement, there are dozens of lesser-known, yet no less significant, activists who helped advance America’s social views and helped shape race relations in this country....

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    • Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
    • By: Akinyele Omowale Umoja
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • This riveting historical narrative reconstructs the armed resistance of Black activists, their challenge of racist terrorism, and their fight for human rights....

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    • America in the King Years 1965-68
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War....

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    • 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice: Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
    • By: Raymond Arsenault
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • The saga of the Freedom Riders is an improbable, almost unbelievable story....

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    • Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
    • By: Maegan Parker Brooks
    • Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 01-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Fannie Lou Hamer stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s Black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression....

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