African American Memoirs

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    • The Jazz Singer Who Transformed American Song
    • Auteur(s): Judith Tick
    • Narrateur(s): Carmen Jewel Jones
    • Durée: 19 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Ella Fitzgerald (1917-1996) possessed one of the twentieth century's most astonishing voices. Historian Judith Tick offers a sublime portrait of this ambitious risk-taker whose exceptional musical spontaneity made her a transformational artist....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Solomon Northup
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Durée: 8 h et 27 min
    • Date de publication: 2013-09-03
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Twelve Years a Slave is the written work of Solomon Northup; a man who was born free, but was bound into slavery later in life....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Story of Racial Tragedy, Trauma, and Redemption
    • Auteur(s): Phil Allen Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Terrence Kidd
    • Durée: 5 h et 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-07-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • On December 10, 1953, tragedy was visited on a family when Nathaniel Allen was murdered on the Sampit River. Three generations later, Phil Allen Jr. revisits this harrowing story and recounts the "baton of bitterness" that this murder passed down in his family....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Frederick Douglass
    • Narrateur(s): Isaac Winslow
    • Durée: 4 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass was published in 1845; it is a memoir and treatise on abolition written by the famous author and former slave Frederick Douglass. The book includes two introductions by well-known abolitionists....

    Prix courant: 15,10$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Making of a Black Theologian
    • Auteur(s): James H. Cone
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 5 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-04-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • In this powerful and passionate memoir, Cone describes the obstacles he overcame to find his voice, to respond to the signs of the times, and to offer a voice for those - like the parents who raised him in Bearden, Arkansas, in the era of lynching and Jim Crow - who had no voice....

    Prix courant: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 17,81$ ou 1 crédit

    • Insurgent Black Intellectual Life
    • Auteur(s): Bell Hooks, Cornel West
    • Narrateur(s): Adenrele Ojo
    • Durée: 8 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-03-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this provocative and captivating dialogue, bell hooks and Cornel West come together to discuss the dilemmas, contradictions, and joys of Black intellectual life....

    Prix courant: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 21,92$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Memoir of a Kidnapping
    • Auteur(s): Shane McCrae
    • Narrateur(s): Shane McCrae
    • Durée: 5 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • When Shane McCrae was three years old, his grandparents kidnapped him and took him to suburban Texas. His mom was white and his dad was Black, and to hide his Blackness from him, his maternal grandparents stole him from his father.

    Prix courant: 18,44$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,44$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Civil War Nurse
    • Auteur(s): Pamela Dell
    • Narrateur(s): anonymous
    • Durée: 31 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-03-22
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Susie King Taylor, born a slave in 1848, would learn to read at secret schools and go on to teach countless others to read and write. Follow the course of the Civil War in her own words as she remembers her work as a nurse and teacher with an Army troop of African-American soldiers....

    Prix courant: 4,03$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 4,03$ ou 1 crédit

    • A Memoir of Ambition and Manhood in America
    • Auteur(s): Gregory Pardlo
    • Narrateur(s): Gregory Pardlo
    • Durée: 7 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-04-10
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning poet: an extraordinary memoir and blistering meditation on fatherhood, race, addiction, and ambition....

    Prix courant: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,40$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Story of Junius Wilson
    • Auteur(s): Susan Burch, Hannah Joyner
    • Narrateur(s): Corey Johnson
    • Durée: 10 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-04-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Junius Wilson (1908-2001) spent 76 years at a state mental hospital in Goldsboro, North Carolina, including 6 in the criminal ward....

    Prix courant: 33,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Brendan I. Koerner
    • Narrateur(s): David Sadzin
    • Durée: 10 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-08-25
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • An epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of WWII. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his White commanding officers, found solace in opium....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • How Black Men Won the Right to Wear Navy Gold
    • Auteur(s): Dan Goldberg
    • Narrateur(s): Sam Manual
    • Durée: 8 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-05-19
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The story of the 13 courageous black men who integrated the officer corps of the US Navy during World War II—leading desegregation efforts across America and anticipating the civil rights movement....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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  • Prix courant: 20,15$ ou 1 crédit

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    • The Autobiography of a Great American Businessman
    • Auteur(s): John H. Johnson, Lerone Bennett Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): John H. Johnson
    • Durée: 2 h et 50 min
    • Date de publication: 1999-12-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • John H. Johnson, the remarkable entrepreneur who founded the Ebony publishing empire, tells the story of his success....

    Prix courant: 16,11$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 16,11$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Life of Nate Shaw
    • Auteur(s): Theodore Rosengarten
    • Narrateur(s): Sean Crisden
    • Durée: 23 h et 17 min
    • Date de publication: 2014-08-27
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • All God's Dangers is the plainspoken story of an "over average" man who witnessed momentous changes in the lives of Southern people, Black and White....

    Prix courant: 53,13$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 53,13$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 26,82$ ou 1 crédit

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    • My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers
    • Auteur(s): Bridgett M. Davis
    • Narrateur(s): Bridgett M. Davis
    • Durée: 10 h et 14 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-01-29
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • A daughter's homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful story about the lengths to which a mother will go to "make a way out of no way" to provide a prosperous life for her family - and how those sacrifices resonate over time....

    Prix courant: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 28,27$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year
    • Auteur(s): Paul Alexander
    • Narrateur(s): Maya Days
    • Durée: 11 h et 59 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an unconventional portrait of arguably America’s most eminent jazz singer....

    Prix courant: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,22$ ou 1 crédit

    • An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
    • Auteur(s): Eleanor Herman, Peggielene Bartels
    • Narrateur(s): J. Karen Thomas
    • Durée: 14 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-02-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 évaluation
    • King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of an American secretary who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 souls on Ghana's central coast, half a world away....

    Prix courant: 41,68$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 41,68$ ou 1 crédit