Civil Rights History

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    • Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Sharon McMahon
    • Narrated by: Sharon McMahon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 591 ratings
    • From America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.

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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 41 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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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Series: American Civil War
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
    • By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 360 ratings
    • ProPublica’s groundbreaking investigation into housing segregation, and the federal government’s large-scale failure to uphold the laws meant to prevent it....

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    • The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
    • By: Jeanne Theoharis
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement....

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    • A Personal History of Our Times
    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: David Strathairn
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 250 ratings
    • Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change....

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 673 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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    • Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 520 ratings
    • In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....

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    • By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,617 ratings
    • April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against Blacks by the city government and downtown retailers....

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    • A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
    • By: Thomas E. Ricks
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 58 ratings
    • #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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    • The United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Preservation of Confederate Culture
    • By: Karen L. Cox
    • Narrated by: Pam Ward
    • Length: 6 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 03-23-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 29 ratings
    • Karen L. Cox's history of the UDC, an organization founded in 1894 to vindicate the Confederate generation and honor the Lost Cause, shows why myths surrounding the Confederacy continue to endure....

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    • By: Curtis Bryant, Kevin Arbouet
    • Narrated by: Tariq Trotter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • This searing audio documentary brings listeners deep inside the unforgettable story of MOVE, gaining unprecedented access to surviving MOVE members, elected officials from the era, eyewitnesses, and historians to create an indelible portrait of an American tragedy.

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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 50 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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    • Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    • By: Daniel Sharfstein
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 195 ratings
    • Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task....

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    • Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Lance Hill
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • In 1964 a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization - the Deacons for Defense and Justice - to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence....

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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 98 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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    • A History of US, Book 10
    • By: Joy Hakim
    • Narrated by: Christina Moore
    • Length: 10 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 02-24-05
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • Meet Harry S. Truman, Joe McCarthy, Ike, JFK, LBJ, Rosa Parks, Thurgood Marshall, Elvis Presley, Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, Cesar Chavez, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 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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    • 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 95 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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