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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 35 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • 1966—The Year Black Power Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Mark Whitaker
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 12 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 02-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Journalist and author Mark Whitaker explores the momentous year that redefined the civil rights movement as a new sense of Black identity expressed in the slogan “Black Power” challenged the nonviolent philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Lewis....

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    • Black Women's Battle for the Ballot Box
    • By: Evette Dionne
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-24-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • For African American women, the fight for the right to vote was only one battle. An eye-opening book that tells the important, overlooked story of black women as a force in the suffrage movement - when fellow suffragists did not accept them as equal partners in the struggle....

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    • How We Come Together When We Fall Apart
    • By: Alicia Garza
    • Narrated by: Alicia Garza
    • Length: 9 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 10-20-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 318 ratings
    • An essential guide to building transformative movements to address the challenges of our time, from one of the country’s leading organizers and a co-creator of Black Lives Matter....

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • Arguments for a Colorblind America
    • By: Coleman Hughes
    • Narrated by: Coleman Hughes
    • Length: 5 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 514 ratings
    • An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning that the so-called ‘anti-racist’ movement is driving us—ironically—toward a new kind of racism....

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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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    • After Identity Politics
    • By: Mark Lilla
    • Narrated by: Charles Constant
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-29-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 309 ratings
    • From one of the most internationally admired political thinkers, a controversial polemic on the failures of identity politics and what comes next for the left - in America and beyond....

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    • How Anti-White Racism Is Tearing America Apart
    • By: Jeremy Carl
    • Narrated by: Chris Reilly
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
    • While political and media elites hysterically condemn an imaginary epidemic of “white supremacy,” in the real world, white Americans are often openly discriminated against. Indeed, anti-white policies have become so interwoven in the fabric of American life that we often fail to recognize them.

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    • Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
    • By: Joy-Ann Reid
    • Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 311 ratings
    • By MSNBC's Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.

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    • Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
    • By: Joan Quigley
    • Narrated by: Kate Reading
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
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    • In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book’s heart, the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts....

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    • By: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 508 ratings
    • Mississippi, 1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant....

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    • By: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 577 ratings
    • Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.

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    • Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
    • By: Paul Kix
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln-Smith
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Paul Kix takes the listener behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s pivotal 10 week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama....

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    • The Story of America and African Americans
    • By: Kadir Nelson
    • Narrated by: Debbie Allen
    • Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • The story of America and African Americans is a story of hope and inspiration and unwavering courage....

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