African American Memoirs

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    • 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

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    • 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

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    • The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
    • Auteur(s): Tiya Miles
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards
    • Durée: 9 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • In 1850s South Carolina, an enslaved woman named Rose faced a crisis: the imminent sale of her daughter Ashley. Thinking quickly, she packed a cotton bag for her with a few items, and, soon after, the nine-year-old girl was separated from her mother and sold....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

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    • 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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    • 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

    • Evolution of a Game
    • Auteur(s): Michael Lewis
    • Narrateur(s): Stephen Hoye
    • Durée: 11 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2006-10-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19 évaluations
    • When we first meet the young man at the center of this extraordinary and moving story, he is one of 13 children by a mother addicted to crack....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ 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

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    • An Epic Journey from Slavery to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Ilyon Woo
    • Narrateur(s): Janina Edwards, Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 12 h et 55 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-01-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 évaluations
    • In 1848, a year of international democratic revolt, a young, enslaved couple, Ellen and William Craft, achieved one of the boldest feats of self-emancipation in American history.

    Prix courant: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,21$ ou 1 crédit

    • 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

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    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Harry Belafonte, Michael Shnayerson
    • Narrateur(s): Harry Belafonte, Mirron Willis
    • Durée: 19 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2011-10-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 évaluations
    • Harry Belafonte is not just one of the greatest entertainers of our time; he has led one of the great American lives of the last century....

    Prix courant: 39,83$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Made in America
    • Auteur(s): Michael Eric Dyson, Pharrell - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Michael Eric Dyson, Nick Cannon
    • Durée: 5 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2019-11-26
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 22 évaluations
    • Jay-Z: Made in America is the fruit of Michael Eric Dyson’s decade of teaching the work of one of the greatest poets this nation has produced, as gifted a wordsmith as Walt Whitman, Robert Frost and Rita Dove....

    Prix courant: 19,42$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Memoir of Changing the Odds
    • Auteur(s): Rich Paul, Jesse Washington - contributor, LeBron James - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Rich Paul, Dennis Logan
    • Durée: 4 h et 46 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-10-10
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 évaluations
    • There’s a story about Rich Paul that everyone knows: A twenty-one-year-old kid from Cleveland who sells sports jerseys out of his car meets a high school basketball phenom named LeBron James at an airport....

    Prix courant: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,99$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Auteur(s): Dr. William F. Pepper Esq.
    • Narrateur(s): Noah Michael Levine
    • Durée: 13 h et 53 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-12-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 2 évaluations
    • William Pepper was James Earl Ray's lawyer in the trial for the murder of Martin Luther King, Jr., and even after Ray's conviction and death, Pepper continues to argue Ray's innocence....

    Prix courant: 37,53$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Harriet Tubman, Portrait of an American Hero
    • Auteur(s): Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrateur(s): Pam Ward
    • Durée: 12 h et 26 min
    • Date de publication: 2015-11-12
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 évaluations
    • Harriet Tubman is one of the giants of American history - a fearless visionary who led scores of her fellow slaves to freedom and battled courageously behind enemy lines....

    Prix courant: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,18$ ou 1 crédit

    • An American Controversy
    • Auteur(s): Annette Gordon-Reed
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 12 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-06-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When Annette Gordon-Reed's groundbreaking study was first published, rumors of Thomas Jefferson's sexual involvement with his slave Sally Hemings had circulated for two centuries. Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings intensified this debate by identifying glaring inconsistencies....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ 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

    • Auteur(s): Anne Moody
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 15 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2012-12-31
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • Born to a poor couple who were tenant farmers on a plantation in Mississippi, Anne Moody lived through some of the most dangerous days of the pre-civil rights era in the South....

    Prix courant: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,49$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

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    • Auteur(s): Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Bernadette Dunne
    • Durée: 9 h et 57 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 évaluations
    • In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness....

    Prix courant: 20,80$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 20,80$ 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