Civil Liberties

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    • Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
    • By: Kellie Carter Jackson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 54 ratings
    • Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, Black abolitionist leaders accomplished what White nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War....

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    • Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, 10th Anniversary Edition
    • By: Michelle Alexander
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 16 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 04-03-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 12,808 ratings
    • Seldom does a book have the impact of Michelle Alexander’s The New Jim Crow. Since it was first published in 2010, it has been cited in judicial decisions and has been adopted in campus-wide and community-wide reads; it helped inspire the creation of the Marshall Project....

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    • Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement
    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Davis, Coleen Marlo
    • Length: 5 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-13-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,552 ratings
    • Angela Y. Davis illuminates the connections between struggles against state violence and oppression throughout history and around the world....

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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 1,032 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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    • One Woman's Fight Against America's Dirty Secret
    • By: Catherine Coleman Flowers
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-17-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 96 ratings
    • Catherine Coleman Flowers grew up in Lowndes County, Alabama. Once the epicenter of the voting rights struggle, today it’s Ground Zero for a new movement that is Flowers’s life’s work. It’s a fight for a right most Americans take for granted: basic sanitation....

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    • Untold Stories of the Women Who Fought for the Right to Vote
    • By: Susan Ware
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 101 ratings
    • Ware’s deeply moving stories provide a fresh account of one of the most significant moments of political mobilization in American history. The dramatic, often joyous experiences of these women resonate powerfully today, as a new generation of young women demands to be heard....

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    • The Founding Fathers and the Origins of Gun Control in America
    • By: Saul Cornell
    • Narrated by: Kevin T. Collins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 07-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 28 ratings
    • Americans are deeply divided over the Second Amendment. Some passionately assert that the Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns. Others, that it does no more than protect the right of states to maintain militias....

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    • The Feminist Awakening in China
    • By: Leta Hong Fincher
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 7 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-24-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • On the eve of International Women's Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for 37 days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre. Hillary Clinton spoke out on their behalf and activists inundated social media with #FreetheFive....

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    • Arming Yourself Against Gun Control Lies
    • By: John R. Lott Jr. PhD
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 5 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 08-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 490 ratings
    • John Lott turns a skeptical eye to well-funded antigun studies and stories that perpetuate false statistics to frighten Americans into giving up their guns....

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    • The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process
    • By: Alan M. Dershowitz
    • Narrated by: Jim Seybert
    • Length: 5 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment....

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    • A Handbook for American Revolutionaries
    • By: Naomi Wolf
    • Narrated by: Karen White
    • Length: 10 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • As the practice of democracy becomes a lost art, Americans are becoming increasingly desperate for a restored nation....

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    • America’s First Women Soldiers
    • By: Elizabeth Cobbs
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 06-27-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the US Army....

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    • A Citizen's Guidebook to the American Bill of Rights
    • By: Akhil Reed Amar, Les Adams
    • Narrated by: Tim Lundeen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 71 ratings
    • In this succinct volume, Akhil Reed Amar and Les Adams offer a wealth of knowledge about the Bill of Rights that goes beyond a basic understanding....

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    • Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
    • By: Erika Lee
    • Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
    • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • With the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, Chinese laborers became the first group in American history to be excluded from the United States on the basis of their race and class. This landmark law changed the course of US immigration history, but we know little about its consequences....

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    • Does Gender Matter?
    • By: Heath Fogg Davis
    • Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 10-17-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 ratings
    • Beyond Trans pushes the conversation on gender identity to its limits: questioning the need for gender categories in the first place....

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    • Two Lives, Two Deaths, and the Movement That Changed America
    • By: Adar Cohen, Steve Fiffer
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • "Bloody Sunday" - March 7, 1965 - was a pivotal moment in the civil rights struggle....

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    • Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
    • By: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrated by: Michael Eric Dyson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 235 ratings
    • A provocative, lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first Black president and first Black presidency....

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    • Epidemics and the Law from Smallpox to COVID-19
    • By: John Fabian Witt
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 2 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 02-16-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • From yellow fever to smallpox to polio to AIDS to COVID-19, epidemics have prompted Americans to make choices and answer questions about their basic values and their laws....

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    • The Battle for Civil Rights and Liberties
    • By: James F. Simon
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 15 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • In Eisenhower vs. Warren, James F. Simon examines the years of strife between them that led Eisenhower to say that his biggest mistake as president was appointing that "dumb son of a bitch Earl Warren." This momentous, poisonous relationship is presented here at last in one volume....

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    • A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
    • By: W. Caleb McDaniel
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 ratings
    • Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage....

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