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Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Ignited a Movement
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Sean Tivenan
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
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Rosa Parks was a quiet, dignified African-American woman who, in a world of injustice, decided to politely defy a racist policy. In doing so, she ignited a fire in the soul of a community whose "cup of endurance" would permit not even one more comparatively small injustice....
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Ha-ha-ha!
- By Steven Ray Hill on 02-28-20
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Rosa Parks: The Woman Who Ignited a Movement
- Narrated by: Sean Tivenan
- Series: Biographies of Women in History
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-13-18
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks was a quiet, dignified African-American woman who, in a world of injustice, decided to politely defy a racist policy. In doing so, she ignited a fire in the soul of a community whose "cup of endurance" would permit not even one more comparatively small injustice....
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American Character
- 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
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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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Biased Misrepresentation
- By Jay Ehret on 06-24-16
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American Character
- A History of the Epic Struggle Between Individual Liberty and the Common Good
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 03-18-16
- Language: English
- 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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A More Beautiful and Terrible History
- The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
- By: Jeanne Theoharis
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
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Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement....
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don't judge a book by its description
- By Alicia on 09-10-20
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A More Beautiful and Terrible History
- The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
- Narrated by: Kim Staunton
- Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
- Release date: 01-30-18
- Language: English
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Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement....
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom
- African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
- By: Janet Dewart Bell
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Karen Chilton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
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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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Great Listen!
- By Donna on 06-18-21
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Lighting the Fires of Freedom
- African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
- Narrated by: Robin Miles, Karen Chilton
- Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
- Release date: 05-29-18
- Language: English
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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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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- By: David Leonhardt
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
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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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A poignant analysis of our present situation
- By Beth on 11-02-23
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Ours Was the Shining Future
- The Story of the American Dream
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 15 hrs and 52 mins
- Release date: 10-24-23
- Language: English
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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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No Shortcuts
- Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
- By: Jane F. McAlevey
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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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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great
- By Anonymous User on 11-29-20
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No Shortcuts
- Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age
- Narrated by: Pam Ward
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
- Release date: 10-22-19
- Language: English
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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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Across That Bridge
- A Vision for Change and the Future of America
- By: John Lewis
- Narrated by: Keith David
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
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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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Lessons From A True Hero
- By Jeremy on 04-19-19
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Across That Bridge
- A Vision for Change and the Future of America
- Narrated by: Keith David
- Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 04-02-19
- Language: English
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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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Bearing the Cross
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- By: David J. Garrow
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 34 hrs and 19 mins
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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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great but long
- By Thomas on 04-29-10
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Bearing the Cross
- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
- Length: 34 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 12-29-06
- Language: English
- 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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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- By: Howard Zinn
- Narrated by: David Strathairn
- Length: 8 hrs
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Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change....
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mind blowing
- By WILLIAM on 11-27-19
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- Narrated by: David Strathairn
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 02-28-17
- Language: English
- Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change....
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Teddy and Booker T.
- How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
- By: Brian Kilmeade
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 8 hrs
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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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the narration was very distracting
- By J O'Haver on 08-23-24
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Teddy and Booker T.
- How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality
- Narrated by: Brian Kilmeade
- Length: 8 hrs
- Release date: 11-07-23
- Language: English
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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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DK Life Stories: Black History Month
- By: DK, Kitson Jazynka, Stephen Krensky, and others
- Narrated by: Samya De Me, Ako Mitchell
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
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Discover the obstacles that many Black people faced on the way to making groundbreaking accomplishments. You'll find out how they created lasting change and paved the way for future generations....
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DK Life Stories: Black History Month
- Narrated by: Samya De Me, Ako Mitchell
- Length: 6 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 12-16-21
- Language: English
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Discover the obstacles that many Black people faced on the way to making groundbreaking accomplishments. You'll find out how they created lasting change and paved the way for future generations....
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
- A Narrative History of Black Power in America
- By: Peniel E. Joseph
- Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
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An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality....
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Decent Introduction, not thorough at all
- By Grover on 07-29-14
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Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
- A Narrative History of Black Power in America
- Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
- Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
- Release date: 06-08-07
- Language: English
- An acclaimed chronicler of the Civil Rights Movement, Peniel Joseph presents this sweeping overview of a key component of the struggle for racial equality....
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- By: Daron Acemoglu, James A. Robinson
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
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From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....
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Hugely disappointing book!
- By Amazon Customer on 10-16-19
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The Narrow Corridor
- States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty
- Narrated by: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 23 hrs and 44 mins
- Release date: 09-24-19
- Language: English
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From the authors of the international best seller, Why Nations Fail, a crucial new big-picture framework that answers the question of how liberty flourishes in some states but falls to authoritarianism or anarchy in others....
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Negroes with Guns
- By: Robert F. Williams
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
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First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups....
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Interesting story
- By SciFi-Nerd on 08-23-24
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Negroes with Guns
- Narrated by: John Riddle
- Length: 3 hrs and 2 mins
- Release date: 01-11-23
- Language: English
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First published in 1962, Negroes with Guns is the story of a southern black community's struggle to arm itself in self-defense against the Ku Klux Klan and other racist groups....
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Freedom's Dominion
- A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
- By: Jefferson Cowie
- Narrated by: André Chapoy
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
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A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, Freedom’s Dominion radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
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Very easily read and I learned a lot
- By Kev All on 02-05-23
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Freedom's Dominion
- A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power
- Narrated by: André Chapoy
- Length: 16 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 11-22-22
- Language: English
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A riveting history of the long-running clash between white people and federal authority, Freedom’s Dominion radically shifts our understanding of what freedom means in America.
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Freedom in the Family
- A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
- By: Tananarive Due
- Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
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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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Took me back to the Civil Rights era.
- By Kathleen McDonald on 11-18-11
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Freedom in the Family
- A Mother-Daughter Memoir of the Fight for Civil Rights
- Narrated by: Patricia Floyd
- Length: 17 hrs and 19 mins
- Release date: 05-23-11
- Language: English
- 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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History Teaches Us to Resist
- How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
- By: Mary Frances Berry
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
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In this incisive audiobook, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change and the defeat of outrageous proposals, even in challenging times....
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a MUST read
- By Jim Ballows on 10-18-21
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History Teaches Us to Resist
- How Progressive Movements Have Succeeded in Challenging Times
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
- Release date: 03-13-18
- Language: English
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In this incisive audiobook, historian Mary Frances Berry shows that resistance to presidential administrations has led to positive change and the defeat of outrageous proposals, even in challenging times....
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Unapologetic
- A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
- By: Charlene Carruthers
- Narrated by: Charlene Carruthers
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
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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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I learned a lot
- By Mickey G on 10-28-18
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Unapologetic
- A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
- Narrated by: Charlene Carruthers
- Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 08-28-18
- Language: English
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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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The Mississippi Burning Case
- 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
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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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Disappointed - couldn't listen to it due to narrat
- By Theo on 10-25-17
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The Mississippi Burning Case
- The History and Legacy of the Freedom Summer Murders at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
- Narrated by: Scott Clem
- Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
- Release date: 03-13-17
- Language: English
- 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 Great Dissenter
- The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
- By: Peter S. Canellos
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
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The “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan....
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A good and necessary book, BUT WHY THE BEEPS??!
- By aaron on 09-06-21
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The Great Dissenter
- The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
- Narrated by: Arthur Morey
- Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 06-08-21
- Language: English
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The “superb” (The Guardian) biography of an American who stood against all the forces of Gilded Age America to fight for civil rights and economic freedom: Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan....
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