Civil Rights Act
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- By: Clay Risen
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history. It gave the government sweeping powers to strike down segregation, to enforce fair hiring practices, and to rectify bias in law enforcement and in the courts. The Act so dramatically altered American society that, looking back, "it seems preordained", as Everett Dirksen, the GOP leader in the Senate and a key supporter of the bill, said, "no force is more powerful than an idea whose time has come." But there was nothing predestined about the victory.
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Informative, a bit dry at times, so so narration
- By Gregory E Benoit on 11-16-15
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The Bill of the Century
- The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
- Narrated by: Joel Richards
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 04-01-14
- Language: English
- The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history....
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Waging a Good War
- A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
- By: Thomas E. Ricks
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
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Thomas E. Ricks offers an utterly new perspective on America’s greatest moral revolution—the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s—and its legacy today. While the Movement has become synonymous with Martin Luther King Jr.’s ethos of nonviolence, Ricks draws on his deep knowledge of tactics and strategy to advance a surprising but revelatory idea: the greatest victories for Black Americans of the past century were won not by idealism alone, but through recruiting, training, discipline, and organization—the hallmarks of any successful military campaign.
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I was born and raised in Alabama. Jim Crow Era.
- By Moses Pitts on 10-06-22
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Waging a Good War
- A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
- Narrated by: JD Jackson
- Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 10-04-22
- Language: English
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#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a groundbreaking new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world....
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Civil Rights
- Rhetoric or Reality?
- By: Thomas Sowell
- Narrated by: James Bundy
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
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Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at whether the civil rights movement has lived up to its hopes or its rhetoric. In the decades since the historic Supreme Court decision on desegregation, who has gained and who has lost? Which of the assumptions behind the civil rights revolution have stood the test of time, and which have proven to be mistaken or even catastrophic to those who were supposed to be helped?
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Thomas Sowell is the is the Vision of the US
- By DCS on 01-30-16
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Civil Rights
- Rhetoric or Reality?
- Narrated by: James Bundy
- Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
- Release date: 01-18-07
- Language: English
- 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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Civil Rights Movement
- A History from Beginning to End
- By: Hourly History
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
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The Civil Rights Movement in America is a broad term for the movement in the mid-20th century among and for the African American community in pursuit of equal protection and rights under the law. In reality, it began much earlier than the 1950s and continues until this day. What is more, it was about so much more than the extension of universal rights; the Civil Rights Movement is about the story of the long struggle to overcome the legacies of slavery and racism. It is a story of triumph over adversity and perseverance in the face of great hardship.
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Civil Rights Movement
- A History from Beginning to End
- Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
- Series: American Civil War
- Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
- Release date: 08-30-21
- Language: English
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The Civil Rights Movement in America is a broad term for the movement in the mid-20th century among and for the African American community in pursuit of equal protection and rights under the law....
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Civil Rights
- General Knowledge
- By: iMinds
- Narrated by: Todd MacDonald
- Length: 6 mins
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Imagine living in a world where different skin colours are celebrated, where gender is not a controversy, and where disabilities are always respected. Such a world would be one that recognised 'civil rights'. Civil rights are people's rights to be equal, regardless of race, religion, gender, and disabilities. In democratic countries, civil rights are also known as "natural rights".
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Helpful for kids
- By Amazoner on 02-24-22
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Civil Rights
- General Knowledge
- Narrated by: Todd MacDonald
- Length: 6 mins
- Release date: 12-02-09
- Language: English
- Learn about the development of Civil Rights with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds....
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle
- A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
- By: Melvin I. Urofsky
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
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From acclaimed legal historian, author of a biography of Louis Brandeis and Dissent and the Supreme Court a history of affirmative action from its beginning with the Civil Rights Act of 1866 to the first use of the term in 1935 with the enactment of the National Labor Relations Act (the Wagner Act) to 1961 and John F. Kennedy’s Executive Order 10925, mandating that federal contractors take "affirmative action" to ensure that there be no discrimination by "race, creed, color, or national origin" down to today’s American society.
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Big disappointment for this author
- By Steven White on 04-11-20
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The Affirmative Action Puzzle
- A Living History from Reconstruction to Today
- Narrated by: Dan Woren
- Length: 21 hrs and 41 mins
- Release date: 01-28-20
- Language: English
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A rich, multifaceted history of affirmative action from the Civil Rights Act of 1866 through today’s tumultuous times....
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From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act
- A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
- By: Christopher M. Finan
- Narrated by: Christopher M. Finan
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
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From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act traces the fight for free speech from the turn of the 19th century through the War on Terror. Christopher Finan has given us a vital history of our most fundamental, and most vulnerable, constitutional right.
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Required Reading (Listening) for Citizenship
- By Micah D on 03-17-19
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From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act
- A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
- Narrated by: Christopher M. Finan
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Release date: 12-18-18
- Language: English
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From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act traces the fight for free speech from the turn of the 19th century through the War on Terror. Christopher Finan has given us a vital history of our most fundamental, and most vulnerable, constitutional right....
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The Engagement
- America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage
- By: Sasha Issenberg
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
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On June 26, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that state bans on gay marriage were unconstitutional, making same-sex unions legal across the United States. But the road to that momentous decision was much longer than many know. In this definitive account, Sasha Issenberg vividly guides us through same-sex marriage’s unexpected path from the unimaginable to the inevitable.
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The Engagement
- America's Quarter-Century Struggle over Same-Sex Marriage
- Narrated by: Graham Halstead
- Length: 33 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 06-01-21
- Language: English
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The riveting story of the conflict over same-sex marriage in the United States—the most significant civil rights breakthrough of the new millennium....
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Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- By: Lennard Davis
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
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The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is the widest-ranging and most comprehensive piece of civil rights legislation ever passed in the United States, and it has become the model for disability-based laws around the world. Yet the surprising story behind how the bill came to be is little known.
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this book is so informative
- By Anonymous User on 01-10-23
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Enabling Acts
- The Hidden Story of How the Americans With Disabilities Act Gave the Largest US Minority Its Rights
- Narrated by: Kevin Stillwell
- Length: 10 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 07-14-15
- Language: English
- The first significant book on the history and impact of the ADA - the "eyes on the prize" moment for disability rights....
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At America's Gates
- Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
- By: Erika Lee
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
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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 for the Chinese in America or for the United States as a nation of immigrants. At America's Gates is the first book devoted entirely to both Chinese immigrants and the American immigration officials who sought to keep them out.
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steeped in critical race theory
- By Amazon Customer on 01-30-22
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At America's Gates
- Chinese Immigration During the Exclusion Era, 1882-1943
- Narrated by: Emily Woo Zeller
- Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
- Release date: 07-03-18
- Language: English
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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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The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
- Studies in American Constitutional Heritage
- By: Charles S. Bullock III, Ronald Keith Gaddie, Justin J. Wert
- Narrated by: Bill Burrows
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
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On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law. The decision - the culmination of an eight-year battle over the power of Congress to regulate state conduct of elections - marked the closing of a chapter in American politics. That chapter had opened a century earlier in the case of Guinn v. United States, which ushered in national efforts to knock down racial barriers to the ballot.
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The Rise and Fall of the Voting Rights Act
- Studies in American Constitutional Heritage
- Narrated by: Bill Burrows
- Length: 8 hrs and 49 mins
- Release date: 06-23-16
- Language: English
- On June 25, 2013, the US Supreme Court handed down its decision in Shelby County v. Holder, invalidating a key provision of voting rights law....
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Insurrection
- Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
- By: Hawa Allan
- Narrated by: Hawa Allan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
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The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts. Its power is integrally linked to the perceived threat of Black American equity in what lawyer and critic Hawa Allan demonstrates is a dangerous paradox. While the act was initially used to repress rebellion against slavery, during Reconstruction it was invoked by President Grant to quell white-supremacist uprisings in the South.
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Insurrection
- Rebellion, Civil Rights, and the Paradoxical State of Black Citizenship
- Narrated by: Hawa Allan
- Length: 7 hrs and 45 mins
- Release date: 04-12-22
- Language: English
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The little-known and under-studied 1807 Insurrection Act was passed to give the president the ability to deploy federal military forces to fend off lawlessness and rebellion, but it soon became much more than the sum of its parts....
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The Civil Rights Movement in the Early 20th Century: The History and Legacy of the Fight for Equality in America After Reconstruction
- By: Charles River Editors
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
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“Reconstruction” is employed as a generic term for the period that followed the American Civil War. Suggesting a successful rejuvenation of a war-ravaged South, it lamentably gave way to a resurrection of the same white ruling class and slave-owner mentality, protecting the status quo in the legislatures and courts. With the distortion of Reconstruction’s intent came a body of racial policy and a tacitly understood social code that barred the pre-war slave class from personal freedom and opportunity, at the risk of great personal violence for anyone who objected.
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The Civil Rights Movement in the Early 20th Century: The History and Legacy of the Fight for Equality in America After Reconstruction
- Narrated by: Dan Gallagher
- Length: 3 hrs and 55 mins
- Release date: 12-03-18
- Language: English
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“Reconstruction” is used as a generic term for the period that followed the American Civil War. Suggesting a successful rejuvenation of a war-ravaged South, it lamentably gave way to a resurrection of the same white ruling class and slave-owner mentality, protecting the status quo....
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White Lawyer, Black Power
- A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
- By: Donald A. Jelinek
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
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Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years. In White Lawyer, Black Power, Jelinek recounts the battles he fought in defense of militant civil rights activists and rural African Americans, risking his career and his life to further the struggle for racial equality.
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One of the five or 10 most interesting books I have read in my 72 years.
- By Paul on 02-21-23
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White Lawyer, Black Power
- A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
- Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
- Release date: 12-22-20
- Language: English
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Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years....
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Being Heumann
- The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- By: Judith Heumann, Kristen Joiner
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Paralyzed from polio at 18 months, Judy Heumann began her struggle for equality early in life. From fighting to attend grade school after being described as a 'fire hazard' to later winning a lawsuit against the New York City school system for denying her a teacher's license, to leading the section 504 sit-in that led to the creation of the Americans with Disabilities Act, Judy's actions set a precedent that fundamentally improved rights for disabled people around the globe.
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Being Heumann
- The Unrepentant Memoir of a Disability Rights Activist
- Narrated by: Ali Stroker
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 07-01-21
- Language: English
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A story of fighting to belong in a world that wasn't built for all of us and of one woman's activism, Being Heumann recounts Judy Heumann's lifelong battle to achieve respect, acceptance and inclusion in society....
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