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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 137 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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    • An Autobiography
    • By: Dick Gregory, Dr. Christian Gregory - introduction, Robert Lipsyte
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Dr. Christian Gregory
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-28-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,237 ratings
    • Fifty-five years ago, in 1964, an incredibly honest and revealing memoir by one of the America's best-loved comedians and activists, Dick Gregory, was published. With a shocking title and breathtaking writing, Dick Gregory defined a genre and changed the way race was discussed in America....

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    • By: New York Public Library, Edmund White
    • Narrated by: full cast
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 99 ratings
    • For the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Bakari Sellers
    • Narrated by: Bakari Sellers
    • Length: 5 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,804 ratings
    • What J. D. Vance did for Appalachia with Hillbilly Elegy, CNN analyst and one of the youngest state representatives in South Carolina history Bakari Sellers does for the rural South, illuminating the lives of America’s forgotten Black working-class men and women....

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    • The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
    • By: Peter S. Canellos
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • The “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan....

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    • The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
    • By: Bruce Watson
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
    • In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks....

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    • By: Jerry Mitchell
    • Narrated by: Jerry Mitchell
    • Length: 13 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 185 ratings
    • In Race Against Time, Mitchell takes listeners on the twisting, pulse-racing road that led to the reopening of four of the most infamous killings from the days of the Civil Rights Movement, decades after the fact....

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    • How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
    • By: Charles E Cobb Jr.
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Visiting Martin Luther King Jr., at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol....

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    • The Permanence of Racism
    • By: Derrick Bell, Michelle Alexander - foreword
    • Narrated by: Brad Raymond
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • In Faces at the Bottom of the Well, civil rights activist and legal scholar Derrick Bell uses allegory and historical example to argue that racism is an integral and permanent part of American society....

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    • Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse
    • Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • In this reappraisal of racial politics, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance....

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    • A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
    • By: Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Kate Clifford Larson tells the remarkable story of Fannie Lou Hamer, community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement.

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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
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    • 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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    • By: Stephen Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican-born Black nationalist and originator of the “Back to Africa” movement during the 1900s, was a passionate and formidable orator and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association....

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    • Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
    • By: Diane McWhorter
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 02-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation....

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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 194 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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    • America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction
    • By: Kate Masur
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, North and South, in the decades before the Civil War....

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    • Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Michelle Alexander
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12,747 ratings
    • Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project....

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    • Reflections for a New Generation
    • By: John Lewis, Andrew Young, Kabir Sehgal
    • Narrated by: Don Cheadle
    • Length: 2 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 07-13-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 76 ratings
    • A brilliant and empowering collection of final reflections and words of wisdom from venerable civil rights champion, the late Congressman John Lewis, at the end of his remarkable life....

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