Civil Rights History

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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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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....

    Regular price: $24.74

    • 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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    • 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 188 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....

    Regular price: $21.49

    • 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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    • 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 1,222 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.

    Regular price: $20.25

    • 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....

    Regular price: $25.79

    • 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 34 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....

    Regular price: $19.95

    • 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 695 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....

    Regular price: $21.06

    • 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....

    Regular price: $6.95

    • The Story of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr., Jetta Grace Martin
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 6 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • There is a saying: knowledge is power. The secret is this. Knowledge, applied at the right time and place, is more than power. It’s magic. That’s what the Black Panther Party did. They called up this magic and launched a revolution.

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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 1,696 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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    • 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 391 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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    • Human Rights in an Unequal World
    • By: Samuel Moyn
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bel Davies
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 06-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • The age of human rights has been kindest to the rich. Even as state violations of political rights garnered unprecedented attention due to human rights campaigns, a commitment to material equality disappeared....

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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 126 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....

    Regular price: $29.95

    • 50th Anniversary Edition
    • By: C.T. Vivian
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Harris
    • Length: 3 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In 1970, C. T. Vivian, a close colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr. and a member of his executive staff, sat down to take stock of the civil rights movement and the progress it had made. His assessment was that it failed, and that the blame lay in the existence of myths about America....

    Regular price: $11.17

    • 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 144 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....

    Regular price: $24.95

    • 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 203 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....

    Regular price: $20.20

    • 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.

    Regular price: $17.19