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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 37 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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    • By: Fredrik deBoer
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Fredrik deBoer explores American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 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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    • 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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    • By: Thomas C. Holt
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 4 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • In The Movement, Thomas C. Holt provides an informed and nuanced understanding of the origins, character, and objectives of the mid-20th-century freedom struggle, privileging the aspirations and initiatives of the ordinary, grassroots people who made it....

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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 1,027 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 Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country....

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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 139 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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    • By: David Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 32 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 59 ratings
    • The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution....

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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 105 ratings
    • Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath....

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    • Armed Resistance in the Mississippi Freedom Movement
    • By: Akinyele Omowale Umoja
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 01-26-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • This riveting historical narrative reconstructs the armed resistance of Black activists, their challenge of racist terrorism, and their fight for human rights....

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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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    • 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 448 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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    • 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 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 127 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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    • Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
    • By: Keisha N. Blain
    • Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement....

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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 169 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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    • 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 41 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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