African American Womens History

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    • Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
    • Written by: Keeanga -Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 2018-03-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s....

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    • Struggles for the Meaning of Freedom
    • Written by: David Williams, Howard Zinn - editor
    • Narrated by: Rick Adamson
    • Length: 22 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Historian David Williams has written the first account of the American Civil War as viewed though the eyes of ordinary people - foot soldiers, slaves, women, prisoners of war, draft resisters, Native Americans, and others....

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    • Written by: Rebecca Skloot
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell, Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2010-02-02
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 210 ratings
    • Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave ancestors, yet her cells - taken without her knowledge - became one of the most important tools in medicine....

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    • The American Dream and the Untold Story of the Black Women Mathematicians Who Helped Win the Space Race
    • Written by: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 10 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 2016-09-06
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The phenomenal true story of the Black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space....

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    • The Journey of Ashley's Sack, a Black Family Keepsake
    • Written by: Tiya Miles
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 9 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2021-06-08
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Written by: Shirley Chisholm
    • Narrated by: Marcella Cox
    • Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2022-11-08
    • Language: English
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    • Political pioneer Shirley Chisholm—activist, member of the House of Representatives, and former presidential candidate—was a woman who consistently broke barriers and inspired generations of American women, and especially women of color.

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    • The Untold Story of the Nurses Who Helped Cure Tuberculosis
    • Written by: Maria Smilios
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2023-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • 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....

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    • Written by: Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2018-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • 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....

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    • America's War on African American Marriage
    • Written by: Dianne M. Stewart
    • Narrated by: Tracey Leigh
    • Length: 9 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 2020-10-06
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • According to the 2010 US census, more than 70 percent of Black women in America are unmarried. Black Women, Black Love reveals how four centuries of laws, policies, and customs have created that crisis....

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    • Black Women, Intimacy, and Freedom in the Atlantic World
    • Written by: Jessica Marie Johnson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 11 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2021-03-09
    • Language: English
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    • In Wicked Flesh, Jessica Marie Johnson explores the nature of complicated intimate and kinship ties and how they were used by Black women to construct freedom in the Atlantic world....

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    • Intimate Histories of Social Upheaval
    • Written by: Saidiya Hartman
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2019-04-09
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Saidiya Hartman examines the revolution of black intimate life that unfolded in Philadelphia and New York at the beginning of the 20th century. Free love, common-law and transient marriages, queer relations, and single motherhood were among the sweeping changes....

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    • Written by: Harriet Ann Jacobs
    • Narrated by: Mia Ellis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2018-12-26
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Harriet Ann Jacob's autobiography documents her life as a slave and how she attained freedom. Harrowing in its descriptions of sexual abuse, Jacob's slave narrative is notable for the appeal it made to abolitionist women to open their eyes to the realities of slavery....

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    • A Hidden History of Math’s Unsung Trailblazers
    • Written by: Kate Kitagawa, Timothy Revell
    • Narrated by: Daphne Kouma
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2024-07-16
    • Language: English
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    • Covering thousands of years, six continents, and just about every mathematical discipline, The Secret Lives of Numbers is an immensely compelling narrative history.

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • Written by: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 2018-09-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • ReVisioning American History, Book 5
    • Written by: Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Series: ReVisioning History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 2020-02-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance....

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    • The Road to Freedom
    • Written by: Catherine Clinton
    • Narrated by: Shayna Small
    • Length: 8 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Celebrated for her courageous exploits as a conductor on the Underground Railroad, Harriet Tubman has entered history as one of 19th-century America's most enduring and important figures....

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    • Written by: Margot Lee Shetterly
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2016-11-29
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • Before John Glenn orbited the earth, or Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of dedicated female mathematicians known as “human computers” used pencils, slide rules, and adding machines to calculate the numbers that would launch rockets, and astronauts, into space....

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    • White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
    • Written by: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-31
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow....

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    • Written by: Norma Miller, Evette Jensen
    • Narrated by: Bettye Zoller Seitz
    • Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2014-07-28
    • Language: English
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    • Dancer, award-winning choreographer, show producer, stand-up comedienne, TV/film actress, and author, Norma Miller shares her touching historical memoir....

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