Civil Rights History

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    • Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
    • Written by: Sharon McMahon
    • Narrated by: Sharon McMahon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 2024-09-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • Written by: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Series: American Civil War
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 2021-08-30
    • Language: English
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    • The Civil Rights Movement in America is a broad term for the movement in the mid-20th century among and for the African American community in pursuit of equal protection and rights under the law....

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    • Written by: Leo Strauss
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 2023-02-14
    • Language: English
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    • In this classic work, Leo Strauss examines the problem of natural right and argues that there is a firm foundation in reality for the distinction between right and wrong in ethics and politics....

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    • Written by: Curtis Bryant, Kevin Arbouet
    • Narrated by: Tariq Trotter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 2024-08-08
    • Language: English
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    • This searing audio documentary brings listeners deep inside the unforgettable story of MOVE, gaining unprecedented access to surviving MOVE members, elected officials from the era, eyewitnesses, and historians to create an indelible portrait of an American tragedy.

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • Written by: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2016-04-30
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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    • A History
    • Written by: Lynn Hunt
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 2022-10-11
    • Language: English
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    • How were human rights invented, and how does their tumultuous history influence their perception and our ability to protect them today? From Professor Lynn Hunt comes this extraordinary cultural and intellectual history, which traces the roots of human rights to the rejection of torture....

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    • Written by: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 2013-04-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 18 ratings
    • April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against Blacks by the city government and downtown retailers....

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    • The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
    • Written by: Romeo Dallaire
    • Narrated by: Marcel Jeannin
    • Length: 21 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 2019-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • A brave, unforgettable first-hand account of the Rwandan genocide by a man almost literally haunted by the dead and by the spectre of his mission's failure. Marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of this horrific event, this edition includes a new note from Roméo Dallaire....

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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • Written by: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 2013-02-27
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 15 ratings
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

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    • The Hidden History of Black Civil Rights
    • Written by: Dylan C. Penningroth
    • Narrated by: Terrence Kidd
    • Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 2024-03-26
    • Language: English
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    • The familiar story of civil rights goes like this: once, America's legal system shut Black people out and refused to recognize their rights, their basic human dignity, or even their very lives. When lynch mobs gathered, police often closed their eyes, if they didn't join in.

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    • A Personal History of Our Times
    • Written by: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: David Strathairn
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 2017-02-28
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change....

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    • Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    • Written by: Daniel Sharfstein
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 2017-04-04
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task....

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    • Written by: James Baldwin
    • Narrated by: Jesse L. Martin
    • Length: 2 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 2008-01-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 155 ratings
    • James Baldwin galvanized the nation in the early days of the civil-rights movement with his eloquent manifesto....

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    • Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
    • Written by: Kellie Carter Jackson
    • Narrated by: Machelle Williams
    • Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 2021-01-05
    • Language: English
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    • Through tactical violence, argues Carter Jackson, Black abolitionist leaders accomplished what White nonviolent abolitionists could not: creating the conditions that necessitated the Civil War....

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    • America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
    • Written by: Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 2018-07-03
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination....

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    • Alabama Communists During the Great Depression
    • Written by: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 2020-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the Civil Rights movement, Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality....

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    • Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
    • Written by: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 2022-01-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country.

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    • Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
    • Written by: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 2010-10-05
    • Language: English
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    • In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....

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    • The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
    • Written by: Ijeoma Oluo
    • Narrated by: Ijeoma Oluo
    • Length: 10 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 2020-12-01
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 85 ratings
    • Through the last 150 years of American history, Ijeoma Oluo exposes the devastating consequences of white male supremacy on women, people of color, and white men themselves....

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