African American Biography

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    • Auteur(s): Frederick Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 4 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • This memoir written by writer, orator, and former slave Frederick Douglass describes, in gripping detail, the circumstances of his upbringing, his brutal treatment at the hands of slave-owners, and his narrow escape from Maryland to freedom....

    Prix courant: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice
    • Auteur(s): Adam Makos
    • Narrateur(s): Dominic Hoffman
    • Durée: 14 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • Devotion tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy’s most famous aviation duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the country-club scene, Tom passed up Harvard to fly fighters for his country....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
    • Auteur(s): Maria Smilios
    • Narrateur(s): Gina Daniels
    • Durée: 12 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-09-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • During those dark pre-antibiotic days, when tuberculosis killed one in seven people, white nurses at Sea View, New York’s largest municipal hospital, began quitting....

    Prix courant: 29,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • One Name, Two Fates
    • Auteur(s): Wes Moore, Tavis Smiley - afterword
    • Narrateur(s): Wes Moore
    • Durée: 6 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-04-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 évaluations
    • From the governor of Maryland, the true story of two kids with the same name: One went on to be a Rhodes Scholar, decorated combat veteran, White House Fellow, and business leader. The other is serving a life sentence in prison.

    Prix courant: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrateur(s): Mia Ellis
    • Durée: 8 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 évaluations
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

    Prix courant: 38,57$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 38,57$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Rap Story
    • Auteur(s): Talib Kweli
    • Narrateur(s): Talib Kweli
    • Durée: 8 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-02-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 évaluations
    • Before Talib Kweli became a world-renowned hip hop artist, he was a Brooklyn kid who liked to cut class, spit rhymes, and wander the streets of Greenwich Village with a motley crew of artists, rappers, and DJs who found hip hop more inspiring than their textbooks....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Spiritual Autobiography
    • Auteur(s): Sidney Poitier
    • Narrateur(s): Sidney Poitier
    • Durée: 7 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • In this luminous memoir, a true American icon looks back on his celebrated life and career....

    Prix courant: 22,13$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,13$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Biography of African-American Polar Explorer Matthew Henson
    • Auteur(s): Dolores Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Caroline Clay
    • Durée: 1 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-02-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Matthew Henson’s destiny was set when he met naval officer Robert Edwin Peary, in 1887....

    Prix courant: 12,03$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 12,03$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): John Howard Griffin
    • Narrateur(s): Ray Childs
    • Durée: 7 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2003-12-24
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 91 évaluations
    • Writer John Howard Griffin decided to perform an experiment in order to learn from the inside out how one race could withstand the second class citizenship imposed on it by another race....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Life of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Auteur(s): Stephen B. Oates
    • Narrateur(s): Cary Hite
    • Durée: 22 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • By the acclaimed biographer of Abraham Lincoln, Nat Turner, and John Brown, Stephen B. Oates' prizewinning Let the Trumpet Sound is the definitive one-volume life of Martin Luther King Jr.....

    Prix courant: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 30,25$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Untold Story of Jeremiah G. Hamilton, Wall Street's First Black Millionaire
    • Auteur(s): Shane White
    • Narrateur(s): John Lee
    • Durée: 12 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • In Prince of Darkness, a groundbreaking and vivid account, eminent historian Shane White reveals the larger-than-life story of a man who defied every convention of his time....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Prison Letters of George Jackson
    • Auteur(s): George Jackson, Jonathan Jackson Jr. - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Jonathan Jackson Jr.
    • Durée: 11 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A collection of Jackson's letters from prison, Soledad Brother is an outspoken condemnation of the racism of white America and a powerful appraisal of the prison system that failed to break his spirit but eventually took his life....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Tyler Perry
    • Narrateur(s): Tyler Perry
    • Durée: 4 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2007-01-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Here's "Madea" Mabel Simmons telling her own story, dishing her memoirs and hard-won, hilarious wisdom in her own inimitable voice (with a little help from her friend Tyler Perry)....

    Prix courant: 16,32$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 16,32$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Elizabeth Yates
    • Narrateur(s): Roslyn Ruff
    • Durée: 3 h et 45 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When Amos Fortune was only 15 years old, he was captured by slave traders and brought to Massachusetts, where he was sold at auction....

    Prix courant: 28,23$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,23$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Booker T. Washington
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Waterman
    • Durée: 6 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2001-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 87 évaluations
    • Booker T. Washington fought his way out of slavery to become an educator, statesman, political shaper and proponent of the "do it yourself" idea....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Kiese Laymon
    • Narrateur(s): Kiese Laymon
    • Durée: 6 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-10-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 66 évaluations
    • A personal narrative that illuminates national failures, Heavy is defiant yet vulnerable, an insightful, often comical exploration of weight, identity, art, friendship, and family....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Narrateur(s): Jacqueline Woodson
    • Durée: 3 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-28
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s....

    Prix courant: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,48$ ou 1 crédit

    • Barack Obama and the Politics of Race in America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson
    • Durée: 9 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-02-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A provocative, lively deep dive into the meaning of America's first Black president and first Black presidency....

    Prix courant: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,41$ ou 1 crédit

    • How the FBI and the Chicago Police Murdered a Black Panther
    • Auteur(s): Jeffrey Haas
    • Narrateur(s): George Newbern
    • Durée: 11 h et 49 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-03-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 10 évaluations
    • Uncovering a cold-blooded execution at the hands of a conspiring police force, this engaging account relentlessly pursues the murderers of Black Panther Fred Hampton....

    Prix courant: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 39,63$ ou 1 crédit