African American Womens History

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    • ReVisioning American History, Book 5
    • By: Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Series: ReVisioning History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 02-04-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 304 ratings
    • In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance....

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    • A Goddess to The Gods
    • By: Hoshayah Israel
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 3 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 07-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • It’s time to unleash the power that has been hidden from you for so long. This book is a royal summons to every Black woman ready to return to ...

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • By: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 01-19-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 37 ratings
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • By: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 157 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
    • By: Jessica Marie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 03-09-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by Black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

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    • Early 1900s Segregation In A City With Secrets
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • It was 1905, in New Orleans, three years after Earl’s family escaped the KKK in Mississippi. People thought Betty Jones, a brothel madam, was a ...

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    • By: Doug Peterson
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 10 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 01-17-24
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • They ran 1,000 miles to freedom and changed the country forever. The Vanishing Woman tells the true story of Ellen Craft, who escaped from slavery ...

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    • The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
    • By: Tiya Miles
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 06-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 347 ratings
    • In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold....

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    • By: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16,872 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
    • By: Keeanga -Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 03-20-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 194 ratings
    • The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • By: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-06-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 9,631 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • How to Be True to You
    • By: A'ja Wilson
    • Narrated by: A'ja Wilson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 402 ratings
    • Dear Black Girls is a necessary and meaningful exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in America today—and a rallying cry to lift up women and girls everywhere....

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    • America's War on African American Marriage
    • By: Dianne M. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 10-06-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 64 ratings
    • According to the 2010 US census, more than 70 percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis....

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    • White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
    • By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 43 ratings
    • Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow....

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    • Enslaved Women and Their Remarkable Fight for Freedom in Revolutionary America
    • By: Karen Cook Bell
    • Narrated by: L. Malaika Cooper
    • Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Running from Bondage tells the compelling stories of enslaved women, who comprised one-third of all runaways, and the ways in which they fled or attempted to flee bondage during and after the Revolutionary War....

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    • The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
    • By: Maria Smilios
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-19-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting....

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    • By: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 519 ratings
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • A Captivating Guide to the People and Events that Shaped the History of the United States
    • By: Captivating History
    • Narrated by: Duke Holm
    • Length: 3 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 01-16-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Explore captivating stories and facts about African American history! The history of African Americans is a long and tragic chronicle of events....

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