African American Biography

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    • Auteur(s): Michelle Duster
    • Narrateur(s): Michelle Duster
    • Durée: 3 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-01-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Called "a dangerous negro agitator" by the FBI, and a "brave woman" by Frederick Douglass, an inspiring biography of the American pioneer by Ida B. Wells' great-granddaughter....

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    • What Was?
    • Auteur(s): Sherri L. Smith, Who HQ
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Série: What-? by Who HQ
    • Durée: 1 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-12-29
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Relive the moments when African Americans fought for equal rights, and made history. Even though slavery had ended in the 1860s, African Americans were still suffering under the weight of segregation a hundred years later....

    Prix courant: 8,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Who Was?
    • Auteur(s): Sarah Fabiny, Who HQ
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Eller
    • Série: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Durée: 1 h
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The story of how a girl born into slavery became an early leader in the civil rights movement and the most famous black female journalist in 19th-century America....

    Prix courant: 8,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Life in Music and Protest
    • Auteur(s): Ian Zack
    • Narrateur(s): Rosa Howard
    • Durée: 9 h et 28 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-12
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The first in-depth biography of the legendary singer and "Voice of the Civil Rights Movement", who combatted racism and prejudice through her music....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
    • Auteur(s): Yvonne Ryan
    • Narrateur(s): Pamela L. Kelly
    • Durée: 8 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Roy Wilkins: The Quiet Revolutionary and the NAACP, Yvonne Ryan offers the first biography of this influential activist, as well as an analysis of his significant contributions to civil rights in America....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Henry Brown Mails Himself to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Carole Boston Weatherford
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 37 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-04-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • What have I to fear? My master broke every promise to me. I lost my beloved wife and our dear children. All, sold South. Neither my time nor my body is mine. The breath of life is all I have to lose. And bondage is suffocating me....

    Prix courant: 7,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Biologist Ernest Everett Just
    • Auteur(s): Mélina Mangal
    • Narrateur(s): Book Buddy Digital Media
    • Durée: 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ernest Everett Just was not like other scientists of his time. He saw the whole, where others saw only parts. He noticed details others failed to see. He persisted in his research despite the discrimination and limitations imposed on him as an African American....

    Prix courant: 7,06$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation's Capital
    • Auteur(s): Joan Quigley
    • Narrateur(s): Kate Reading
    • Durée: 13 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In Just Another Southern Town, Joan Quigley recounts an untold chapter of the civil rights movement: an epic battle to topple segregation in Washington, the symbolic home of American democracy. At the book’s heart, the formidable Mary Church Terrell and the test case she mounts....

    Prix courant: 23,14$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Times of William Monroe Trotter
    • Auteur(s): Kerri K. Greenidge
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 15 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • William Monroe Trotter (1872-1934), although still virtually unknown to the wider public, was an unlikely American hero. With the stylistic verve of a newspaperman and the unwavering fearlessness of an emancipator, he galvanized Black working-class citizens....

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    • The Lion Who Wrote History
    • Auteur(s): Walter Dean Myers
    • Narrateur(s): Corey Allen
    • Durée: 18 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The story of one of America's most revered figures is brought to life by the text of award-winning author Walter Dean Myers....

    Prix courant: 8,90$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Story of Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician
    • Auteur(s): Lesa Cline-Ransome
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Before John Glenn orbited the Earth or astronauts walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used their knowledge, pencils, adding machines, and writing paper to calculate the orbital mechanics....

    Prix courant: 7,00$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Carl C. Anthony
    • Narrateur(s): Martin Nicolaus
    • Durée: 11 h et 20 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race connects the logics behind slavery, community disinvestment, and environmental exploitation to address the most pressing issues of our time in a cohesive and foundational manner....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): John O. Hodges
    • Narrateur(s): Wayne M. Lane
    • Durée: 6 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-06-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The son of Black sharecroppers, John Oliver Hodges attended segregated schools in Greenwood, Mississippi, in the 1950s and '60s, worked in plantation cotton fields, and eventually left the region to earn multiple degrees and become a tenured university professor....

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Thomas W. Jones
    • Narrateur(s): Larry Herron
    • Durée: 13 h et 2 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-07-02
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In stark and compelling prose, Thomas W. Jones tells his story as a campus revolutionary who led an armed revolt at Cornell University in 1969 and then altered his course over the next 50 years to become a powerful leader in the financial industry....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
    • Auteur(s): Carlotta Walls LaNier, Lisa Frazier Page, Bill Clinton - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Carlotta Walls LaNier
    • Durée: 12 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • When 14-year-old Carlotta Walls walked up the stairs of Little Rock Central High School on September 25, 1957, she and eight other Black students only wanted to make it to class. But the journey of the “Little Rock Nine” would lead the nation on a much more turbulent path....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Yona Zeldis McDonough
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Pariseau
    • Durée: 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-03-26
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • If not for a stint in reform school, young Louis Armstrong might never have become a musician. It was a teacher at the Colored Waifs' Home who gave him a cornet, promoted him to band leader, and saw talent in the tough kid from the even tougher New Orleans neighborhood called Storyville....

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    • Auteur(s): Yona Zeldis McDonough, Who HQ
    • Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo
    • Série: Who-? by Who HQ
    • Durée: 1 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • Born a slave in Maryland, Harriet Tubman knew first-hand what it meant to be someone's property; she was whipped by owners and almost killed by an overseer. It was from other field hands that she first heard about the Underground Railroad....

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    • Robert F. Kennedy in Mississippi
    • Auteur(s): Ellen B. Meacham
    • Narrateur(s): Rosemary Benson
    • Durée: 11 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-19
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this audiobook, Ellen B. Meacham tells the story of Kennedy's visit to the Mississippi Delta, while also examining the forces of history, economics, and politics that shaped the lives of the children he met in Mississippi in 1967 and the decades that followed....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • When Pride Met Courage
    • Auteur(s): Walter Dean Myers, Bill Miles
    • Narrateur(s): Corey Allen
    • Durée: 2 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Walter Dean Myers and Bill Miles deftly tell the true story of the unsung American heroes of the 369th Infantry Regiment of World War I. At a time of widespread bigotry and racism, the African American soldiers of the 369th Infantry Regiment put their lives on the line for democracy....

    Prix courant: 12,24$ ou 1 crédit

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