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    • What Happens to People When Work Disappears
    • By: Farah Stockman
    • Narrated by: Farah Stockman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-12-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 90 ratings
    • Shannon, Wally, and John built their lives around their place of work. Shannon, a white single mother, became the first woman to run the dangerous furnaces at the Rexnord manufacturing plant in Indianapolis, Indiana, and was proud of producing one of the world’s top brands....

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    • 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice: Oxford University Press: Pivotal Moments in US History
    • By: Raymond Arsenault
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 14 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 63 ratings
    • The saga of the Freedom Riders is an improbable, almost unbelievable story....

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    • Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Lance Hill
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In 1964 a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization - the Deacons for Defense and Justice - to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence....

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    • A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Carolyn Maull McKinstry
    • Narrated by: Felicia Bullock
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 12-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 74 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull McKinstry was just a few feet away when the Klan - planted bomb that killed four of her friends exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama....

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    • The Double Life of Walter F. White and America's Darkest Secret
    • By: A.J. Baime
    • Narrated by: Wayne Carr
    • Length: 12 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 02-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 118 ratings
    • Walter F. White led two lives: one as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance and the NAACP in the early twentieth century; the other as a white newspaperman who covered lynching crimes in the Deep South at the blazing height of racial violence....

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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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    • Stories from the Long Road to Freedom
    • By: Condoleezza Rice
    • Narrated by: Grace Angela Henry
    • Length: 12 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 05-09-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • From the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union to the ongoing struggle for human rights in the Middle East, Condoleezza Rice has served on the front lines of history....

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    • Memoir of a Freedom Rider
    • By: Charles Person, Richard Rooker
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • A firsthand exploration of the cost of boarding the bus of change to move America forward - written by one of the Civil Rights Movement's pioneers....

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    • The Story of John Marshall Harlan, America's Judicial Hero
    • By: Peter S. Canellos
    • Narrated by: Arthur Morey
    • Length: 19 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 213 ratings
    • 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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    • The Life and Times of Bayard Rustin
    • By: John D'Emilio
    • Narrated by: Scott R. Pollak
    • Length: 20 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 08-25-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Before Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, Bayard Rustin was working to bring the civil rights movement to the forefront of America's consciousness. He brought Gandhi's philosophy of nonviolence to America and helped launch the civil rights movement....

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    • Bayard Rustin’s Life in Letters
    • By: Bayard Rustin, Michael G. Long
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 18 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 05-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • A master strategist and tireless activist, Bayard Rustin is best remembered as the organizer of the 1963 March on Washington, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States....

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    • By: Marcus Garvey
    • Narrated by: Yosef Kent
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • One of the most important and controversial figures in the history of race relations in America and the world at large, Marcus Garvey was the first great black orator of the 20th century....

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    • The Black Radical Imagination
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: J. D. Jackson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 04-17-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 79 ratings
    • Kelley unearths freedom dreams in this exciting history of renegade intellectuals and artists of the African diaspora in the 20th century....

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    • The Politics of Liberation
    • By: Kwame Ture, Charles V. Hamilton
    • Narrated by: Rodney Tompkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 06-19-24
    • Language: English
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    • An eloquent document of the civil rights movement that remains a work of profound social relevance 50 years after it was first published.

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    • A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
    • By: Yvette Johnson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 205 ratings
    • Johnson travels back to Greenwood, Mississippi, a beautiful Southern town steeped in secrets and a scarred past, to interview family members about the real Booker Wright....

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    • Community-Led Practices to Build the Worlds We Need
    • By: Sasha Costanza-Chock
    • Narrated by: Megan Tusing
    • Length: 10 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • What is the relationship between design, power, and social justice? "Design justice" is an approach to design that is led by marginalized communities and that aims explicitly to challenge, rather than reproduce, structural inequalities....

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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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    • America in the King Years 1965-68
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 03-14-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War....

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