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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 1,249 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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    • 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 107 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 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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    • 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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 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 Novel
    • By: Greg Iles
    • Narrated by: Scott Brick
    • Series: Penn Cage, Book 7
    • Length: 45 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 05-28-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 395 ratings
    • Fifteen years after the events of the Natchez Burning trilogy, Penn Cage is alone. Nearly all his loved ones are dead, his old allies gone, and he carries a mortal secret that separates him from the world....

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    • By: Frantz Fanon, Richard Philcox - translator
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 6 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world....

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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 309 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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    • The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
    • By: A.J. Baime
    • Narrated by: Wayne Carr
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence....

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    • The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights
    • By: Doug Jones, Greg Truman, Rick Bragg - foreword
    • Narrated by: Doug Jones
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 68 ratings
    • On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy....

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    • A True Story
    • By: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 193 ratings
    • The “riveting” (Chicago Tribune) true story of the fiery summer of 1970, which would forever transform the town of Oxford, North Carolina - a classic portrait of the fight for civil rights....

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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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    • From the Founding to the Present
    • By: Allan J. Lichtman
    • Narrated by: Dennis Holland
    • Length: 9 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Americans have fought and died for the right to vote. Yet the world's oldest continuously operating democracy guarantees no one, not even citizens, the opportunity to elect a government. In this rousing work, Allan Lichtman calls attention to the founders' crucial error....

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    • Rhetoric or Reality?
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: James Bundy
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,024 ratings
    • Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at whether the civil rights movement has lived up to its hopes or its rhetoric....

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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 35 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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    • 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 135 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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    • 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 25 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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    • Birmingham 1963
    • By: Shelia P. Moses
    • Narrated by: Genesis Oliver
    • Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Rufus Jackson Jones is from Birmingham, the place Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called the most segregated place in the country. A place that in 1963 is full of civil rights activists including Dr. King....

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    • The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
    • By: Clay Risen
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history....

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