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    • American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020
    • By: Elisabeth Griffith
    • Narrated by: Elisabeth Griffith
    • Length: 17 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 02-28-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • The Nineteenth Amendment was an incomplete victory. Black and white women fought hard for voting rights and doubled the number of eligible voters, but the amendment did not enfranchise all women or even protect the rights of those women who could vote....

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    • The People Who Left the Left and Reshaped the American Century
    • By: Daniel Oppenheimer
    • Narrated by: John Pruden
    • Length: 13 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • Daniel Oppenheimer tells the stories of six major political figures whose journeys away from the left reshaped the contours of American politics in the 20th century....

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    • From the Suffragettes to Influencers and Who They Leave Behind
    • By: Koa Beck
    • Narrated by: Koa Beck
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 84 ratings
    • Addressing today’s conversation about race, empowerment, and inclusion in America, Koa Beck, writer and former editor-in-chief of Jezebel, boldly examines the history of feminism, from the true mission of the suffragists to the rise of corporate feminism....

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    • A History of School Integration and Civil Rights in the North
    • By: Zoe Burkholder
    • Narrated by: Andrea Gallo
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 01-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 1 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Since Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 Americans have viewed school integration as a central tenet of the Black civil rights movement. Yet, school integration was not the only - or even always the dominant - civil rights strategy....

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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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    • A Short History
    • By: Mark A. Noll
    • Narrated by: Adam Verner
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-30-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Mark Noll, one of the most influential historians of American religion writing today, traces the explosive political effects of the religious intermingling with race....

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    • The Life and Legacy of the Civil Rights Activist Who Led the Black Power Movement
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: KC Wayman
    • Length: 1 hr and 11 mins
    • Release date: 05-24-22
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • "Our grandfathers had to run, run, run. My generation's out of breath. We ain't running no more.” (Stokely Carmichael). In the town of Greenwood, central Mississippi, on the evening of June 16, 1966, one of the most influential speeches in modern American history was delivered....

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    • Five Decades of Writing About Black Lives
    • By: Charlayne Hunter-Gault
    • Narrated by: Charlayne Hunter-Gault
    • Length: 13 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 10-11-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • From the legendary Emmy Award-winning journalist, a collection of ground-breaking reportage from across five decades which vividly chronicles the experience of Black life in America today....

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    • From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
    • By: Gail Lumet Buckley
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-16
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family....

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    • A Global History of Prohibition
    • By: Mark Lawrence Schrad
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 02-08-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • As Mark Lawrence Schrad shows in Smashing the Liquor Machine, the conventional scholarship on prohibition is extremely misleading for a simple reason: American prohibition was just one piece of a global phenomenon....

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    • My Life in Politics and History
    • By: Chris Matthews
    • Narrated by: Chris Matthews
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 164 ratings
    • In This Country, Chris Matthews “has written a love letter to his country” (Joy Reid, host of The ReidOut and author of The Man Who Sold America), offering a panoramic portrait of post-World War II America through the story of his remarkable life and career....

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    • The Real Route to Liberation
    • By: Julie Bindel
    • Narrated by: Julie Bindel
    • Length: 7 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 09-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Part feminist manifesto, part call to arms, Feminism for Women is a radical, new exploration of feminism. A frontline activist in the campaign to end male violence for the last four decades, Julie Bindel is a leading voice in the feminist movement....

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    • The Untold Story of the Struggle for Civil Rights in Tuscaloosa
    • By: John M. Giggie
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 06-03-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In Bloody Tuesday, John Giggie powerfully recovers one of the last great untold stories of the civil rights movement and its role in the reckoning with America's ongoing struggle for racial justice.

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    • North Carolina Families Leave Their Imprint on America's Story
    • By: Melvina F. Jones
    • Narrated by: Lane C. Hofmann
    • Length: 5 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 01-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • This book is an examination of how my family's history is interwoven with that of the history of the United States, in general, and that of North Carolina in particular. Three major 20th century players and historical events are highlighted....

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    • Reclaiming America's Lost Promise of Economic Rights
    • By: Mark Paul
    • Narrated by: Gregory Abbey
    • Length: 10 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 07-18-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • An urgent and galvanizing argument for an Economic Bill of Rights—and its potential to confer true freedom on all Americans....

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    • Your Guide to Changing the World
    • By: Lucinda Robb, Rebecca Boggs Roberts
    • Narrated by: Tovah Ott
    • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 10-27-20
    • Language: English
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    • Do you have a cause you’re passionate about? Take a few tips from the suffragists, who led one of the largest, longest, and least well-known movements in American history....

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    • The Black Panther Party's Promise to the People
    • By: Kekla Magoon
    • Narrated by: Tyla Collier
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 11-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
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      With passion and precision, Kekla Magoon relays an essential account of the Black Panthers - as militant revolutionaries and as human rights advocates working to defend and protect their community....

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