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    • The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
    • By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 123 ratings
    • This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

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    • The Struggle to Shape America
    • By: Frances FitzGerald
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 25 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 342 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald tells the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election....

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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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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • The Girls Who Sparked America's Revolutions
    • By: Mattie Kahn
    • Narrated by: Eunice Wong
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Young and Restless recounts one of the most foundational and underappreciated forces in moments of American revolution: teenage girls....

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    • The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Devery S. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Brandon Church
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath....

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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 Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
    • By: Tananarive Due
    • Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
    • Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-23-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Tananarive Due, best-selling author and American Book Award winner, and her mother, Patricia Stephens Due, guide listeners through the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s....

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    • America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
    • By: Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination....

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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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    • A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 57 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972....

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    • A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
    • By: Charlene Carruthers
    • Narrated by: Charlene Carruthers
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist....

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    • A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
    • By: Jennifer Chiaverini
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 168 ratings
    • An enthralling historical novel of the woman’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote....

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    • The History and Legacy of the Freedom Summer Murders at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • One of the most notorious crimes during the Civil Rights Movement was the murder of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June 1964....

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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: 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 138 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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    • 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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    • The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
    • By: Cameron McWhirter
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 179 ratings
    • Author Cameron McWhirter chronicles the unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings that swept the country for eight months, from April to November of 1919, while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society 40 years later....

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