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 1,178 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 47 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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    • 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 62 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 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 691 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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    • Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
    • By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 92 ratings
    • Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country.

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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 382 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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    • How the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
    • By: Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty....

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    • Slavery, Profits, and the Struggle for the Constitution
    • By: Lawrence Goldstone
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 12-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, 39 men from 12 states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last....

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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 36 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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    • A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
    • By: Marione Ingram
    • Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s....

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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • By: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

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    • The Summer of 1919 and the Awakening of Black America
    • By: Cameron McWhirter
    • Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
    • Length: 12 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 02-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • Author Cameron McWhirter chronicles the unprecedented wave of anti-black riots and lynchings that swept the country for eight months, from April to November of 1919, while also exploring the first stirrings of a civil rights movement that would transform American society 40 years later....

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    • Early 1900s Segregation In A City With Secrets
    • By: Alvin M. Hayes
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 4 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 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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    • The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 122 ratings
    • Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall....

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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 18 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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    • How I Exposed a Police Cover-Up and Solved My Father's Murder
    • By: Jon Kinyon
    • Narrated by: Virtual Voice
    • Length: 6 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • "Something clearly stinks in how police handled this case." - Tony Serra, famed Civil Rights Attorney Andy Kinyon was a gifted salesman, a hustler ...

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    • The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America
    • By: Ari Berman
    • Narrated by: Tom Zingarelli
    • Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 08-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 337 ratings
    • A groundbreaking narrative history of voting rights since 1965, Give Us the Ballot tells the story of what happened after the Voting Rights Act was passed.

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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 90 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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