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    • By: Barbara A. Perry
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • President John F. Kennedy, the first Catholic elected as the nation’s chief executive, tried to dodge politically sensitive issues, maintaining a cau­tious, moderate approach....

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    • Confederate Monuments and the Ongoing Fight for Racial Justice
    • By: Karen L. Cox
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • When it comes to Confederate monuments, there is no common ground. Polarizing debates over their meaning have intensified into legislative maneuvering to preserve the statues, legal battles to remove them, and rowdy crowds taking matters into their own hands....

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    • The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
    • By: Drs. Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 10 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-24
    • Language: English
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    • Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president.

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    • By: Geoffrey Giuliano
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
    • Length: 1 hr and 45 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-19
    • Language: English
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    • This unique audiobook from historian and author Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer, Angela Davis, using informed commentary and the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself....

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    • The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Rick Bowers
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 20 ratings
    • During the civil rights movement, the state of Mississippi created an elaborate spy network....

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    • Black Artist, Public Radical
    • By: Judith E. Smith
    • Narrated by: Quintin W. Allen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 09-16-16
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Harry Belafonte became the first Black performer to gain artistic control over the representation of African Americans in commercial television and film....

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    • The Race to Save Martin Luther King Jr.'s Life and Win the 1960 Election
    • By: Paul Kendrick, Stephen Kendrick
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • Less than three weeks before the 1960 presidential election, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested at a sit-in at Rich's Department Store in Atlanta. Nine Days is the first full recounting of an event that changed the course of one of the closest elections in American history....

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    • A Modern-Day Race Woman and the Power of Black Leadership
    • By: Sonya Y. Ramsey
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 11-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • This biography of educational activist and Black studies forerunner Bertha Maxwell-Roddey examines a life of remarkable achievements and leadership in the desegregated South....

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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
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    • 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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    • Jobs, Freedom, and the Forgotten History of Civil Rights
    • By: William P. Jones
    • Narrated by: Kevin Free
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-13
    • Language: English
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    • A brilliant history that goes beyond the dazzling "I Have a Dream" speech to explore the real significance of the massive march and the movement it inspired....

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    • An Underground History
    • By: James R. Gaines
    • Narrated by: James Fouhey
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • An “exciting and enlightening revisionist history” (Walter Isaacson) that upends the myth of the 1950s as a decade of conformity and celebrates a few solitary, brave, and stubborn individuals who pioneered the radical gay rights, feminist, civil rights, and environmental movements....

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    • All About...People
    • By: Todd Outcalt
    • Narrated by: Wolf Williams
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-23-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was one of the most influential leaders in the Civil Rights Movement. Influenced by Gandhi, Thoreau, and Jesus, he used nonviolent resistance to become a social activist. Martin led civil rights marches and gave powerful and influential speeches....

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    • The Soulful Echoes of Black Musicians in the Era of Martin Luther King Jr. (1957-1968)
    • By: Eroms Ehiagwina
    • Narrated by: Kevin Key
    • Length: 1 hr and 27 mins
    • Release date: 05-21-24
    • Language: English
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    • Rhythm of Resistance: The Soulful Echoes of Black Musicians in the Era of Martin Luther King Jr. (1957-1968) is an essential story that illuminates the crucial role of music during the Civil Rights Movement and a tribute to musicians who revolutionized the music scene during this period.

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    • By: Simki Kuznick
    • Narrated by: Sara Ghebremichael
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-24
    • Language: English
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    • Inspiring and timely, Pauli Murray's Revolutionary Life is the riveting story of an African American woman, born in 1910, who blazed through the barriers of race and gender....

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    • By: Ray Acheson
    • Narrated by: Roxanne Black
    • Length: 13 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
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    • The story in this book offers a look inside the antinuclear movement and its recent successful campaign to ban the bomb. Ray Acheson narrates the journey of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons and developments in feminist disarmament activism....

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    • Georgia Gilmore and the Montgomery Bus Boycott
    • By: Mara Rockliff
    • Narrated by: Rosa Howard
    • Length: 17 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
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    • Georgia Gilmore was cooking when she heard the news Mrs. Rosa Parks had been arrested - pulled off a city bus and thrown in jail all because she wouldn't let a White man take her seat. To protest, the radio urged everyone to stay off city buses for one day: December 5, 1955....

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    • By: Geoffrey Giuliano
    • Narrated by: Geoffrey Giuliano
    • Length: 3 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This unique audiobook from Geoffrey Giuliano chronicles the life, times, trials, and triumphs of the remarkable scholar, activist, feminist, teacher, and reformer Angela Davis, using informed commentary, but most significantly, the words and wisdom of Ms. Davis herself....

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