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    • America in the 1960s
    • By: Kevin Boyle
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • America in the King Years 1954-63
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 45 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 192 ratings
    • In volume one of his America in the King Years, Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch gives a masterly account of the American civil rights movement....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • The Conscience of the Country
    • By: Arnold A. Offner
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Hubert Humphrey was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office, he has been largely overlooked by biographers. Historian Arnold A. Offner has explored vast troves of archival records to recapture Humphrey's life....

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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 398 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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    • A Story of Race and Resistance
    • By: Mia Bay
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them....

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    • Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
    • By: Joshua Zeitz
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 16 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice....

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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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
    • By: Kevin Boyle
    • Narrated by: Lizan Mitchell
    • Length: 17 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 303 ratings
    • The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925....

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