First Civil Right

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    • America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction
    • By: Kate Masur
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, North and South, in the decades before the Civil War....

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    • The First Post-Civil War Battle over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
    • By: Scott Farris
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • Highlighting forgotten Black and White civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn...

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    • The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Fergus Bordewich
    • Narrated by: Peter J. Fernandez
    • Length: 19 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change....

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    • Free Speech in an Age of Rage
    • By: Jonathan Turley
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Turley
    • Length: 14 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 06-18-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 148 ratings
    • Jonathan Turley takes a timely, revelatory look at freedom of speech—our most basic right and the one that protects all the others....

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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....

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    • The Boundaries and the Boundlessness of Our First Amendment Right
    • By: Lynn Greenky
    • Narrated by: Lisa S. Ware
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • When Freedom Speaks chronicles the stories behind our First Amendment right to speak our minds. Lynn Levine Greenky's background as a lawyer, rhetorician, and teacher gives her a unique perspective on the protection we have from laws that abridge our right to the freedom of speech....

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    • The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
    • By: Mark Bowden
    • Narrated by: Mark Bowden
    • Length: 9 hrs and 55 mins
    • Release date: 04-19-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 412 ratings
    • The Iran hostage crisis was a watershed moment in American history....

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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 91 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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    • By: Floyd Abrams
    • Narrated by: James Foster
    • Length: 3 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 04-25-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 50 ratings
    • The right of Americans to voice their beliefs without government approval or oversight is protected under what may well be the least understood addendum to the US Constitution....

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    • Lessons in Leadership and Legacy from Today's Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Steven L. Reed, Fagan Harris
    • Narrated by: Steven L. Reed
    • Length: 6 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 10-10-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The first Black mayor of Montgomery, Alabama, shares his story of making his way in a world that wasn’t built for him, drawing on his rich heritage as the son of a civil rights leader....

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    • A Biography of the First Amendment
    • By: Anthony Lewis
    • Narrated by: Stow Lovejoy
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 05-15-08
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 142 ratings
    • Americans are free to say and write what they think. The reason for this extraordinary freedom is not a superior culture of tolerance, but just 14 words in our most fundamental legal document....

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    • Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
    • By: Michael Chabon - editor, Ayelet Waldman - editor
    • Narrated by: an all-star cast
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 01-21-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 ratings
    • The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case....

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    • Public Education, the Supreme Court, and the Battle for the American Mind
    • By: Justin Driver
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 19 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 09-04-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • An award-winning constitutional law scholar at the University of Chicago gives us an engaging and alarming book that aims to vindicate the rights of public school stu­dents, which have so often been undermined by the Supreme Court in recent decades....

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    • The Secret Service, the Ku Klux Klan and the Man Who Masterminded America's First War on Terror
    • By: Charles Lane
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 04-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 131 ratings
    • Freedom’s Detective reveals the untold story of the Reconstruction-era US Secret Service and their battle against the Ku Klux Klan, through the career of its controversial chief, Hiram C. Whitle....

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    • The Story of Jackie Robinson's First Season
    • By: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 04-16-07
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • April 15, 1947, marked the most important opening day in baseball history....

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    • Adams, Jefferson, and the Misfits Who Saved Free Speech
    • By: Charles Slack
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 9 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 05-19-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 36 ratings
    • Liberty's First Crisis, writer Charles Slack tells the story of the 1798 Sedition Act, the crucial moment when high ideals met real-world politics and the country's future hung in the balance....

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    • How Oliver Wendell Holmes Changed His Mind and Changed the History of Free Speech in America
    • By: Thomas Healy
    • Narrated by: Danny Campbell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 08-26-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 266 ratings
    • No right seems more fundamental to American public life than freedom of speech. Yet well into the 20th century, that freedom was still an unfulfilled promise....

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    • Breaking Free from the First Amendment
    • By: Mary Anne Franks
    • Narrated by: Soneela Nankani, Mary Anne Franks
    • Length: 8 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 10-15-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • In Fearless Speech, Dr. Mary Anne Franks emphasizes the distinction between what speech a democratic society should protect and what speech a democratic society should promote.

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