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    • The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
    • By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

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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 34 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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    • How Guns Made the Civil Rights Movement Possible
    • By: Charles E Cobb Jr.
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Visiting Martin Luther King Jr., at the peak of the Montgomery, Alabama, bus boycott, journalist William Worthy almost sat on a loaded pistol....

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    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one humid Mississippi night in 1966....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 31 ratings
    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • The Struggle to Shape America
    • By: Frances FitzGerald
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 25 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 342 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald tells the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election....

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    • America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
    • By: Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination....

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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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    • Rhetoric or Reality?
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: James Bundy
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,023 ratings
    • Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at whether the civil rights movement has lived up to its hopes or its rhetoric....

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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 5 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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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 57 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 447 ratings
    • This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972....

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    • A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
    • By: Jennifer Chiaverini
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 167 ratings
    • An enthralling historical novel of the woman’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote....

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    • The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Devery S. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Brandon Church
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath....

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    • Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
    • By: Keisha N. Blain
    • Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 82 ratings
    • A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement....

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    • The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin
    • By: Bayard Rustin, Devon W. Carbado, Donald Weise
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 13 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 11-30-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 23 ratings
    • Bayard Rustin (1912 to1987), the famed openly gay African American organizer, taught Martin Luther King Jr. strategies of nonviolence during the Montgomery Bus Boycott....

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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 292 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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    • 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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