African American Memoirs

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    • One Man’s Journey from Gangleader to Peacekeeper
    • Auteur(s): Charles Barber
    • Narrateur(s): Adam Lazarre-White
    • Durée: 10 h et 54 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-10-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A dramatic narrative account of the life of William Juneboy Outlaw III, whose journey from housing-project youth to ruthless gangland kingpin to change-making community advocate represents a vital next chapter in the ongoing conversation about race and social justice in America....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican Millionaire
    • Auteur(s): Karl Jacoby
    • Narrateur(s): JD Jackson
    • Durée: 9 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-12-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • The Strange Career of William Ellis offers fresh insights on the history of the Reconstruction era, the US-Mexico border, and the abiding riddle of race....

    Prix courant: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,04$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
    • Auteur(s): Yvette Johnson
    • Narrateur(s): Robin Miles
    • Durée: 9 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • Johnson travels back to Greenwood, Mississippi, a beautiful Southern town steeped in secrets and a scarred past, to interview family members about the real Booker Wright....

    Prix courant: 20,58$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life of Caliph Washington and the Forgotten Saga of Jim Crow, Southern Justice, and the Death Penalty
    • Auteur(s): S. Jonathan Bass
    • Narrateur(s): Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 13 h et 40 min
    • Date de publication: 2017-05-02
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Caliph Washington's life was never supposed to matter. As a Black teenager, Washington was wrongfully convicted of killing an Alabama policeman in 1957....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life, Legacy, and Love of My Son Michael Brown
    • Auteur(s): Lezley McSpadden
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 10 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-06-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This revelatory memoir by the mother of Michael Brown, the African American teenager killed by police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014, sheds light on a landmark event....

    Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Larry Eugene
    • Narrateur(s): Terrence Kidd
    • Durée: 10 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • James Page spent the majority of his life enslaved - during which time he experienced the death of his free father, witnessed his mother and brother being sold on the auction block, and was forcibly moved 700 miles south from Richmond, Virginia, to Tallahassee, Florida, by his enslaver....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • Becoming the Woman I Pretended to Be
    • Auteur(s): Valerie Graves
    • Narrateur(s): Trei Taylor
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-22
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • This is the unflinching memoir of a female African American advertising executive’s unprecedented and unlikely success, which began in the Mad Men era. It follows her journey from the projects of Motown-era Michigan to the skyscrapers of Madison Avenue and beyond....

    Prix courant: 24,56$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The "White Knights" and the Murder of Vernon Dahmer
    • Auteur(s): Curtis Wilkie
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Graybill
    • Durée: 12 h et 38 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The inside story of how a courageous FBI informant helped to bring down the KKK organization responsible for a brutal civil rights-era killing, When Evil Lived in Laurel plumbs the nature and harrowing consequences of institutional racism....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
    • Auteur(s): Gayle Jessup White
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 9 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors - both the enslaver and the enslaved....

    Prix courant: 31,46$ ou 1 crédit

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  • Prix courant: 39,38$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • Auteur(s): Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Carrington MacDuffie
    • Durée: 16 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-12-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 2 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • 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....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
    • Auteur(s): Drs. Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
    • Narrateur(s): Kim Staunton
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president.

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
    • Auteur(s): Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
    • Narrateur(s): Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
    • Durée: 13 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
    • Auteur(s): Anastasia C. Curwood
    • Narrateur(s): Gina Daniels
    • Durée: 17 h et 15 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
    • Auteur(s): Barbara D. Savage
    • Narrateur(s): Machelle Williams
    • Durée: 10 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world"....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Why Jesse Jackson Matters
    • Auteur(s): David Masciotra, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Vaughn Johseph
    • Durée: 11 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-07
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • There are few figures and leaders of recent American history of greater social and political consequence than Jesse Jackson, and few more relevant for America’s current political climate. David Masciotra argues that Jackson’s legacy must be rehabilitated in the history of American politics....

    Prix courant: 21,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
    • Auteur(s): John Hope Franklin
    • Narrateur(s): John Hope Franklin
    • Durée: 7 h
    • Date de publication: 2005-10-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Ninety years of American history as lived by the nation's preeminent African American historian and winner of the Presidential Medal of Freedom....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

    • Searching for Paradise and the Promised Land in America
    • Auteur(s): Aaron Robertson
    • Narrateur(s): Dion Graham
    • Durée: 10 h et 11 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • How do the disillusioned, the forgotten, and the persecuted not merely hold on to life but expand its possibilities and preserve its beauty? What, in other words, does utopia look like in black? These questions animate Aaron Robertson’s exploration of Black Americans' efforts to remake their lives.

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Sports Moment That Changed the World
    • Auteur(s): John Carlos, Dave Zirin
    • Narrateur(s): DeMario Clarke
    • Durée: 5 h et 32 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-08-05
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Seen around the world, John Carlos and Tommie Smith’s Black Power salute on the 1968 Olympic podium sparked controversy and career fallout. Yet their show of defiance remains one of the most iconic images of Olympic history....

    Prix courant: 23,75$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,75$ ou 1 crédit