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    • How One Letter Changed Two Lives
    • By: Martin Ganda, Caitlin Alifirenka, Liz Welch
    • Narrated by: Chukwudi Iwuji, Emily Bauer
    • Length: 8 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-14-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,570 ratings
    • The New York Times best-selling true story of an all-American girl and a boy from Zimbabwe and the letter that changed both of their lives forever. It started as an assignment. Everyone in Caitlin's class wrote to an unknown student somewhere in a distant place....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Rebecca Gallagher
    • Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • Length: 4 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • At age six the sharp bite of a whip taught Harriet Tubman what it meant to be a slave. The other slaves scoffed when Harriet resolved to escape north someday. Little did they know that this girl would one day lead hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad....

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    • By: Gare Thompson
    • Narrated by: Kevin Pariseau
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 03-26-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • At age two, Helen Keller became deaf and blind. She lived in a world of silence and darkness and she spent the rest of her life struggling to break through it. But with the help of teacher Annie Sullivan, Helen learned to read, write, and do many amazing things....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Length: 4 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-29-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 252 ratings
    • Once a kidnapped slave baby, George Washington Carver found freedom in learning everything he could about the world around him. Overcoming poverty and racism, George became a brilliant scientist and a gifted professor who dedicated his expertise to helping black farmers....

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    • Who Was...?
    • By: Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 04-05-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 38 ratings
    • In 1955, Rosa Parks refused to give her bus seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama. This seemingly small act triggered civil rights protests across America....

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    • By: Bonnie Bader
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 1 hr and 13 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was only 25 when he helped organize the Montgomery bus boycott and was soon organizing black people across the country in support of the right to vote, desegregation, and other basic civil rights....

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    • Twice Toward Justice
    • By: Phillip Hoose
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 12-10-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 147 ratings
    • On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama....

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    • Growing Up on and off the Court
    • By: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Raymond Obstfeld
    • Narrated by: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 11-21-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 247 ratings
    • At one time Lew Alcindor was just another kid from New York City with all the usual problems: He struggled with fitting in, with pleasing a strict father, and with overcoming shyness....

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    • The Incredible, Sometimes Awkward, True Story of a Rebel Girl on Wheels Who Helped Spark a Revolution
    • By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
    • Narrated by: Ali Stroker
    • Length: 3 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 22 ratings
    • As featured in the Oscar-nominated documentary Crip Camp, and for fans of I Am Malala, one of the most influential disability rights activists in US history tells her story of fighting to belong....

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-25-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • By: Pam Pollack, Meg Belviso, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Ann Marie Lee
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Susan B. Anthony may be an international icon but her campaign for women's rights had personal roots. Working as a school teacher in New York, Anthony refused to settle for less pay than her male colleagues which ignited her lifelong devotion to women's equality....

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    • By: Dana Meachen Rau, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Vikas Adam
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Gandhi spent the later part of his life working to make India independent. Calling for non-violent civil disobedience, he led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights around the world. Gandhi is recognized internationally as a symbol of hope, peace, and freedom....

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    • Becoming a Man of Compassion and Courage
    • By: Eric Greitens
    • Narrated by: Corey M. Snow
    • Length: 5 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • Eric Greitens brings his adventures to life, sharing stories of friendship, struggle, and hard-earned wisdom....

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    • By: Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrated by: Tim Gregory
    • Series: Christian Heroes: Then & Now
    • Length: 5 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • For 200 years, British slave ships plied in the Middle Passage, taking African men, women, and children to their doom. Ending slavery in the British Empire seemed impossible, but once William Wilberforce resolved to represent the abolitionists in Parliament, he would fight to the bitter end....

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    • Who Was?
    • By: Crystal Hubbard, Who HQ
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Series: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Length: 55 mins
    • Release date: 12-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Learn about the incredible legacy of civil rights legend and Georgia congressman John Lewis in this inspiring addition to the #1 New York Times Best-Selling series....

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    • The Fight for Civil Rights
    • By: Ryan P. Randolph
    • Narrated by: Roscoe Orman
    • Length: 1 hr and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Dr. William Edward DuBois pioneered the science of sociology. His detailed long-range study of an African American community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was the first of its kind....

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    • By: Ashley Evans, E. L. Norry
    • Narrated by: Theo Solomon
    • Series: Extraordinary Lives
    • Length: 1 hr and 14 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-20
    • Language: English
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    • Nelson Mandela is known for dedicating his life to fighting for equality in South Africa and overthrowing racial segregation. He grew up hearing the elders' stories of his ancestors' fighting in the wars of resistance, and he dreamed of fighting for the freedom of his people....

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    • 35 Female Athletes Who Changed the World
    • By: Aileen Weintraub, Sarah Green - illustrator
    • Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-04-21
    • Language: English
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    • Inspire kids to be their best selves and get involved in social change with this stunning anthology about 35 amazing women in sports around the world and throughout history....

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