African American Memoirs

Liste de produits
    • The Life of Isaac Burns Murphy
    • Auteur(s): Pellom McDaniels III
    • Narrateur(s): Curtis Jews
    • Durée: 17 h et 35 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-18
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Isaac Burns Murphy (1861-1896) was one of the most dynamic jockeys of his era. Still considered one of the finest riders of all time, Murphy was the first jockey to win the Kentucky Derby three times, and his 44 percent win record remains unmatched....

    Prix courant: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 31,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • From Civil War to Civil Rights with One African American Family
    • Auteur(s): Gail Lumet Buckley
    • Narrateur(s): Allyson Johnson
    • Durée: 11 h et 58 min
    • Date de publication: 2016-03-15
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Gail Lumet Buckley - daughter of actress Lena Horne - delves deep into her family history, detailing the experiences of an extraordinary African American family....

    Prix courant: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,01$ ou 1 crédit

    • The First African American Explorer of the South
    • Auteur(s): Robert Goodwin
    • Narrateur(s): Simon Prebble
    • Durée: 11 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2008-10-30
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • An African slave named Esteban emerges as the nation's first great explorer and adventurer....

    Prix courant: 22,82$ ou 1 crédit

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  • Prix courant: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 26,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Untold Story of 18 African Americans Who Defied Jim Crow and Adolf Hitler to Compete in the 1936 Berlin Olympics
    • Auteur(s): Deborah Riley Draper, Blair Underwood, Travis Thrasher
    • Narrateur(s): Leon Nixon
    • Durée: 9 h et 8 min
    • Date de publication: 2020-02-04
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Discover the astonishing, inspirational, and largely unknown true story of the 18 African American athletes who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games, defying the racism of both Nazi Germany and the Jim Crow South....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Raising Resilient Children
    • Auteur(s): James Gillespie Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Caleb Fields
    • Durée: 3 h et 19 min
    • Date de publication: 2018-03-05
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The book details an African American mother's rise from the poverty of being orphaned at age 4 with 15 siblings, the lessons her struggles and rise taught her children, and her approach to single motherhood and parenting....

    Prix courant: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 18,74$ ou 1 crédit

    • Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama
    • Auteur(s): Claude Clegg III
    • Narrateur(s): Rhett Samuel Price
    • Durée: 20 h et 5 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-10-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In this first interpretative comprehensive history of Barack Obama's presidency in its entirety, Claude A. Clegg III situates the former president in his dynamic, inspirational, yet contentious political context....

    Prix courant: 49,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 49,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • Lessons I Learned While Overcoming the Challenges of Integration
    • Auteur(s): Ralph Stokes, Chris McKinney
    • Narrateur(s): Maxx Pinkins
    • Durée: 5 h et 13 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-08-17
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From the time he became one of the first African American football players at Robert E. Lee High School in Montgomery, Alabama, Ralph Stokes recognized a calling on his life for the cause of racial integration....

    Prix courant: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,00$ ou 1 crédit

    • My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
    • Auteur(s): Carlotta Walls Lanier
    • Narrateur(s): Peter Fernandez, Lizan Mitchell
    • Durée: 10 h et 23 min
    • Date de publication: 2010-01-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • In 1951, Carlotta Walls Lanier was one of the nine African-American students to integrate Little Rock High School, and the first to earn a diploma....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Life and Times of Althea Gibson
    • Auteur(s): Ashley Brown
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 24 h et 4 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-04-11
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From her start playing paddle tennis on the streets of Harlem as a young teenager to her eleven Grand Slam tennis wins to her professional golf career, Althea Gibson became the most famous Black sportswoman of the mid-twentieth century....

    Prix courant: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 38,97$ ou 1 crédit

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    • A Lifetime of Defiance and Protest
    • Auteur(s): Rolundus R. Rice, Andrew Young Jr.
    • Narrateur(s): Arnell Powell
    • Durée: 16 h et 47 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-01-25
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • When civil rights leader Hosea Lorenzo Williams died in 2000, US Congressman John Lewis said of him, "Hosea Williams must be looked upon as one of the founding fathers of the new America. Through his actions, he helped liberate all of us"....

    Prix courant: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 33,40$ ou 1 crédit

    • The African American Musicians Who Made the King
    • Auteur(s): Preston Lauterbach
    • Narrateur(s): Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Durée: 8 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A thought-provoking exploration of the Black musicians who inspired Elvis Presley’s music, primarily through the lens of four overlooked artists: Little Junior Parker, Big Mama Thornton, Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup, and Calvin Newborn.

    Prix courant: 24,11$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 24,11$ ou 1 crédit

    • The Legacy of Civil Rights Icon George W. Crockett Jr.
    • Auteur(s): Edward Littlejohn, Peter J. Hammer
    • Narrateur(s): Beresford Bennett
    • Durée: 14 h et 12 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-27
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The stories of Black lawyers and judges are rarely told. By sharing George W. Crockett Jr.'s life of principled courage, "No Equal Justice" breaks this silence....

    Prix courant: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 25,24$ ou 1 crédit

    • Women of the Black Panther Party and Freedom Summer and Their Fight to Feed a Movement
    • Auteur(s): Suzanne Cope
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Murray
    • Durée: 10 h et 21 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-09
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Two unsung women whose power using food as a political weapon during the civil rights movement was so great it brought the ire of government agents working against them....

    Prix courant: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 23,31$ ou 1 crédit

    • Auteur(s): Vera Pigee, Françoise N. Hamlin - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • From 1955 to 1975, Vera Pigee (1924-2007) put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for social change in Mississippi, principally through her years of leadership in Coahoma County's NAACP....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Effa Manley and the Newark Eagles
    • Auteur(s): James Overmyer
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 12 h et 39 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The first woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, there was no one like Effa Manley in the sports world of the 1930s and 1940s. She was a sophisticated woman who owned a baseball team....

    Prix courant: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 22,26$ ou 1 crédit

    • Dave and Iola Brubeck and Louis Armstrong Challenge Segregation
    • Auteur(s): Keith Hatschek
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 9 h et 29 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Keith Hatschek tells the story of three determined artists: Louis Armstrong, Dave Brubeck, and Iola Brubeck and the stand they took against segregation by writing and performing a jazz musical titled The Real Ambassadors....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    • An Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Gregory Nobles
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 10 h et 43 min
    • Date de publication: 2022-06-28
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • In this first book-length telling of Betsey Stockton's story, Gregory Nobles illuminates both a woman and her world, following her around the globe, and showing how a determined individual could challenge her society's racial obstacles from the ground up....

    Prix courant: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 27,83$ ou 1 crédit

  • Prix courant: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit

    Prix réduit: 32,00$ ou 1 crédit