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    • Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
    • By: Jane F. McAlevey
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 10-22-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 102 ratings
    • The crisis of the progressive movement is so evident that nothing less than a fundamental rethinking of its basic assumptions is required. In No Shortcuts, Jane McAlevey argues that progressives can win, but lack the organized power to enact significant change....

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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 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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    • 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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    • 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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    • America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction
    • By: Kate Masur
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, North and South, in the decades before the Civil War....

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    • Reinventing the Economy to End Oppression
    • By: Peter Joseph
    • Narrated by: Peter Joseph
    • Length: 13 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 466 ratings
    • In our interconnected world, self-interest and social interest are rapidly becoming indistinguishable....

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    • Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
    • By: John N. Herbers
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance....

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    • Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
    • By: David J. Garrow
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 34 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Winner of the 1987 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, this is the most comprehensive book ever written about the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.....

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    • How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
    • By: J. Russell Hawkins
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Focusing on the case of South Carolina, The Bible Told Them So shows how, despite a defeat in the public sphere with the triumph of the civil rights movement, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity....

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    • A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
    • By: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Narrated by: Donovan X. Ramsey
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • The crack epidemic of the 1980s and 1990s is arguably the least examined crisis in American history....

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    • How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
    • By: Brian Kilmeade
    • Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 11-07-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 120 ratings
    • The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates turns to two other heroes of the nation: Theodore Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington....

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    • By: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 5 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,313 ratings
    • Notes of a Native Son inaugurated Baldwin as one of the leading interpreters of the dramatic social changes erupting in the United States in the 20th century, and many of his observations have proven almost prophetic....

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    • A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
    • By: Colin Woodard
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 03-18-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 144 ratings
    • The struggle between individualism and the good of the community as a whole has been the basis of every major disagreement in our history....

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    • African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Janet Dewart Bell
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Karen Chilton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 05-29-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women’s all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices....

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    • The Authorized Biography
    • By: Staci Robinson
    • Narrated by: Jamal Joseph, Staci Robinson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 145 ratings
    • The authorized biography of the legendary artist, Tupac Shakur, a “touching, empathetic portrait” (The New York Times) of his life and powerful legacy, including mementos, handwritten poetry, musings, and more....

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    • The Story of the American Dream
    • By: David Leonhardt
    • Narrated by: Dan John Miller
    • Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 10-24-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 39 ratings
    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist behind The New York Times’s “The Morning” newsletter provides a clear-eyed, definitive history of the modern American economy and the death of the American Dream....

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    • The Making of the Speech that Transformed a Nation
    • By: Clarence B. Jones, Stuart Connelly
    • Narrated by: Clarence B. Jones
    • Length: 5 hrs and 24 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • A thrilling, behind-the-scenes account of the weeks leading up to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s speech, as told by Clarence Jones, co-writer of the speech and close confidant to King....

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    • A Vision for Change and the Future of America
    • By: John Lewis
    • Narrated by: Keith David
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,555 ratings
    • As we confront questions of social inequality, there's no better time to revisit the lessons of the '60s and no better leader to learn from than Congressman John Lewis....

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    • A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Simeon Booker, Carol Mcabe Booker
    • Narrated by: Ronald Clarkson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 03-05-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement....

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