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    • How Voter Suppression Is Destroying Our Democracy
    • By: Carol Anderson
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 6 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-11-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 363 ratings
    • From the award-winning, New York Times best-selling author of White Rage, the startling - and timely - history of voter suppression in America, with a foreword by Senator Dick Durbin....

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    • Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations
    • By: Mary Frances Berry
    • Narrated by: Sharon Washington
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-31-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • Callie House, an ex-slave who led the fight, founded the Ex-Slave Mutual Relief, Bounty, and Pension Association in 1899....

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    • The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
    • By: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity came to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation....

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    • The Untold History of American Labor
    • By: Kim Kelly
    • Narrated by: Em Grosland
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-26-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83 ratings
    • Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific....

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    • Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America
    • By: Carol Anderson
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 354 ratings
    • From the New York Times best-selling author of White Rage comes an unflinching, critical new look at the Second Amendment - and how it has been engineered to deny the rights of African Americans since its inception....

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    • Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • By: Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Authors Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry state that the marginalization of Martin Luther King's ideas reflects a romantic consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative - an effort not at radical reform but at "living up to" enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders....

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    • Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Lance Hill
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In 1964 a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization - the Deacons for Defense and Justice - to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence....

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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 63 ratings
    • The saga of the Freedom Riders is an improbable, almost unbelievable story....

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    • A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
    • By: J. Anthony Lukas
    • Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
    • Length: 35 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 10-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 56 ratings
    • Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families....

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    • The Generation of Young Women Who Desegregated America's Schools
    • By: Rachel Devlin
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 12 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 05-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In A Girl Stands at the Door, historian Rachel Devlin tells the remarkable stories of desegregation pioneers. She also explains why black girls were seen, and saw themselves, as responsible for the difficult work of reaching across the color line in public schools....

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    • Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
    • By: Samuel G. Freedman
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Series
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 07-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • During one week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform....

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    • The Hunt for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Assassin
    • By: James L. Swanson
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 5 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • An astonishing account of the assassination of America's most beloved and celebrated civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr....

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    • Marian Anderson, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Concert That Awakened America
    • By: Raymond Arsenault
    • Narrated by: David Crommett
    • Length: 10 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 03-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Award-winning civil rights historian Ray Arsenault describes the dramatic story behind Marian Anderson’s concert at the Lincoln Memorial....

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    • A Personal History of Our Times
    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: David Strathairn
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change....

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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 18 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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    • The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Great Supreme Court Justices
    • By: Noah Feldman
    • Narrated by: Cotter Smith
    • Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 11-08-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 362 ratings
    • Scorpions tells the story of four great justices: their relationships with FDR, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War....

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    • A Changing Nation and the Cost of Progress
    • By: Wesley Lowery
    • Narrated by: Wesley Lowery
    • Length: 7 hrs
    • Release date: 06-27-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 72 ratings
    • In 2008, Barack Obama’s historic victory was heralded as a turning point for the country. And so it would be—just not in the way that most Americans hoped. The election of the nation’s first Black president fanned long-burning embers of white supremacy....

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