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  • The Souls of Black Folk cover art

    • The Souls of Black Folk

    • By: W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....

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    • Bending Toward Justice

    • The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights
    • By: Doug Jones, Greg Truman, Rick Bragg - foreword
    • Narrated by: Doug Jones
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy....

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    • Klansville, U.S.A

    • The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan
    • By: David Cunningham
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s....

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  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race cover art

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    • Great Figures of the Civil Rights Movement

    • By: Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Hasan Kwame Jeffries
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • Malcolm X. Marcus Garvey. Charles Hamilton Houston. Diane Nash. For every well-known figure of the Civil Rights Movement, there are dozens of lesser-known, yet no less significant, activists who helped advance America’s social views and helped shape race relations in this country....

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    • Devil in the Grove

    • Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
    • By: Gilbert King
    • Narrated by: Peter Francis James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....

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    • A More Beautiful and Terrible History

    • The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
    • By: Jeanne Theoharis
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 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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    • Black Against Empire

    • 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: 30-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 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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    • Hubert Humphrey

    • The Conscience of the Country
    • By: Arnold A. Offner
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 22 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 28-08-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings

    • Hubert Humphrey was one of the great liberal leaders of postwar American politics, yet because he never made it to the Oval Office, he has been largely overlooked by biographers. Historian Arnold A. Offner has explored vast troves of archival records to recapture Humphrey's life....

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    • To Shape a New World

    • Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • By: Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Authors Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry state that the marginalization of Martin Luther King's ideas reflects a romantic consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative - an effort not at radical reform but at "living up to" enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders....

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    • Marcus Garvey: A Biography

    • By: Stephen Johnson
    • Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
    • Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-05-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings

    • Marcus Garvey, a Jamaican-born Black nationalist and originator of the “Back to Africa” movement during the 1900s, was a passionate and formidable orator and founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association....

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    • James Baldwin: Living in Fire

    • Revolutionary Lives
    • By: Bill V. Mullen
    • Narrated by: Douglas Storm
    • Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In the first major biography of Baldwin in more than a decade, Bill V. Mullen celebrates the personal and political life of the great African American writer who changed the face of Western politics and culture....

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    • Into the Bright Sunshine

    • Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
    • By: Samuel G. Freedman
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Series
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • During one week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform....

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    • The Best of Enemies

    • Race and Redemption in the New South
    • By: Osha Gray Davidson
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ann Atwater and C. P. Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue....

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    • The Shattering

    • America in the 1960s
    • By: Kevin Boyle
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 18 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 26-10-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a confident vision of the American Dream....

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    • Shocking the Conscience

    • A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Simeon Booker, Carol Mcabe Booker
    • Narrated by: Ronald Clarkson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement....

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    • Richard Nixon

    • The Life
    • By: John A. Farrell
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 28 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for....

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    • The Kennedy Brothers

    • The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 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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