Civil Rights Historical Fiction

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    • Written by: Sherry Jones
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 2018-12-04
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • Discover the fascinating and singular life story of Josephine Baker - actress, singer, dancer, Civil Rights activist, member of the French Resistance during WWII, and a woman dedicated to erasing prejudice and creating a more equitable world - in Josephine Baker's Last Dance....

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    • Written by: Richard Powers
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 33 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2018-11-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Set against the backdrop of postwar America, The Time of Our Singing is a magnificent, multifaceted novel about a supremely gifted - and divided - family....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Lynda Rutledge
    • Narrated by: Ren Hanami
    • Length: 10 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 2024-01-30
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A powerful and emotional coming-of-age novel set amid the turmoil and profound changes of the 1960s by the bestselling author of West with Giraffes....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Nyani Nkrumah
    • Narrated by: Eboni Flowers, Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 10 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 2023-01-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Set in 1982, in rural, racially divided Ricksville, Mississippi Wade in the Water tells the story of Ella, a Black, unloved, precocious eleven-year-old, and Ms. St. James, a mysterious white woman from Princeton who appears in Ella’s community to carry out some research....

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    • Written by: Ernest J. Gaines
    • Narrated by: Tonya Jordan
    • Length: 8 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2005-10-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • This is a novel in the guise of the tape-recorded recollections of a black woman who has lived 110 years, who has been both a slave and a witness to the black militancy of the 1960s...

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    • How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
    • Written by: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2012-12-04
    • Language: English
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    • In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors....

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    • Written by: Paula Fox
    • Narrated by: Peter MacNicol
    • Length: 3 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 2008-09-09
    • Language: English
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    • Jessie Bollier often played his fife to earn a few pennies down by the New Orleans docks. One afternoon a sailor asked him to pipe a tune, and that evening Jessie was kidnapped and dumped aboard The Moonlight, a slave ship, where a hateful duty awaited him....

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    • Written by: Chris Crowe
    • Narrated by: Victor Bevine
    • Length: 6 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 2019-01-08
    • Language: English
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    • At first, Hiram is excited to visit his hometown in Mississippi. But soon after he arrives, he crosses paths with Emmett Till, a black teenager from Chicago who is also visiting for the summer. Hiram sees firsthand how the local whites mistreat blacks who refuse to "know their place"....

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    • Written by: John Ridley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 2004-10-15
    • Language: English
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    • Unusual and compelling, this is a rags-to-riches tale of a black man searching for respect in a golden age of American entertainment....

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    • A Novel
    • Written by: Malcolm Hansen
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2018-05-29
    • Language: English
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    • It's 1969 when 15-year-old Huey Fairchild begins high school at Claremont Prep, one of New York City's most prestigious boys' schools. His mother had uprooted her family from their small hometown of Akersburg, Georgia, a few years earlier....

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    • Written by: Elaine Neil Orr
    • Narrated by: Cassandra Campbell
    • Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 2018-04-03
    • Language: English
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    • From critically acclaimed writer Elaine Neil Orr, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American Civil Rights movement....

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    • Written by: Tonya Bolden
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2021-09-16
    • Language: English
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    • Dovey Johnson Roundtree was most famous for her successful defense of an indigent Black man accused of the murder of Mary Pinchot Meyer, a prominent White Washington, DC, socialite, in 1965. Despite her triumph in this high-profile case, Roundtree continued to represent the poor....

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    • The Untold Story of Civil Rights Trailblazer Dovey Johnson Roundtree
    • Written by: Dovey Johnson Roundtree, Katie McCabe, Jabari Asim - adaptation
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 2020-12-15
    • Language: English
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    • Raised in Charlotte, North Carolina, in the heart of Jim Crow, Dovey Johnson Roundtree felt the sting of inequality at an early age and made a point to speak up for justice. She was one of the first Black women to break the racial and gender barriers in the US Army....

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    • 50 Remarkable People Who Shaped U.S. History
    • Written by: Lisa Trusiani
    • Narrated by: Helen Laser
    • Length: 2 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 2020-05-19
    • Language: English
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    • Are you ready to listen about daring deeds and world-changing events? Meet the American Trailblazers, diverse historical and modern figures who accomplished incredible things....

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    • Freedom's Voice
    • Written by: Denise Lewis Patrick
    • Narrated by: Joniece Abbott-Pratt
    • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
    • Release date: 2021-05-04
    • Language: English
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    • Get ready to sing for justice with Mahalia Jackson in this exciting middle grade nonfiction biography. The books in the VIP series tell the true—and amazing—stories of some of history's greatest trailblazers. Meet the very important people who changed the world....

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    • A Documentary Novel of the Landmark Civil Rights Case
    • Written by: Patricia Hruby Powell
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 2 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 2017-01-31
    • Language: English
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    • In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law....

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