Those Who Saw the Sun
African American Oral Histories from the Jim Crow South
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Jaha Nailah Avery
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The past is not past. We may think something ancient history, or something that doesn’t affect our present day, but we would be wrong. Those Who Saw the Sun is a collection of oral histories told by Black people who grew up in the South during the time of Jim Crow. Jaha Nailah Avery is a lawyer, scholar, and reporter whose family has roots in North Carolina stretching back over 300 years. These interviews have been a personal passion project for years as she’s traveled across the South meeting with elders and hearing their stories. One of the most important things a culture can do is preserve history, truthfully. In Those Who Saw the Sun we have the special privilege of hearing this history as it was experienced by those who were really there. The opportunity to listen to their stories, their similarities and differences, where they agree and disagree, and where they overcame obstacles and found joy, feels truly like a gift.
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De: Bakari Sellers
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Defining Moments in Black History
- Reading Between the Lies
- De: Dick Gregory
- Narrado por: James Shippy
- Duración: 7 h y 37 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 3,997
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With his trademark acerbic wit, incisive humor, and infectious paranoia, one of our foremost comedians and most politically engaged civil rights activists looks back at 100 key events from the complicated history of Black America. Defining Moments in Black History is an essential, no-holds-bar history lesson that will provoke, enlighten, and entertain.
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3 out of 5 stars
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How we see the world matters to how we tell storie
- De Adam Shields en 10-03-18
De: Dick Gregory
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A Mighty Long Way
- My Journey to Justice at Little Rock Central High School
- De: Carlotta Walls Lanier
- Narrado por: Peter Fernandez, Lizan Mitchell
- Duración: 10 h y 23 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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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. Here she provides a firsthand account of her experiences - including the bombing that rocked her home, the constant threats she and her classmates faced, and the pressure and bullying her parents endured.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very insightful book
- De karen feek en 01-05-21
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The Black Friend
- On Being a Better White Person
- De: Frederick Joseph
- Narrado por: Miebaka Yohannes
- Duración: 5 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 465
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Writing from the perspective of a friend, Frederick Joseph offers candid reflections on his own experiences with racism and conversations with prominent artists and activists about theirs - creating an essential listen for white people who are committed anti-racists and those newly come to the cause of racial justice.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not really a friend and not friendly
- De emax en 06-01-21
De: Frederick Joseph
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Uprising
- Who the Hell Said You Can't Ditch and Switch? - The Awakening of Diamond and Silk
- De: Diamond and Silk
- Narrado por: Diamond and Silk
- Duración: 10 h y 13 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 117
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Who are Diamond and Silk? Donald Trump’s biggest fans. A national treasure. A force of nature. A political awakening that can’t be stopped. And a natural antidepressant. Diamond and Silk are all that and more. The very sight and sound of these insightful and ebullient ladies lifts spirits and opens minds. Diamond and Silk are a unique phenomenon impossible to pigeonhole - or to control. And now they tell their own story for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great American Story! ** GET THIS BOOK**
- De kathy en 11-06-20
De: Diamond and Silk
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In Search of Our Roots
- How 19 Extraordinary African Americans Reclaimed Their Past
- De: Henry Louis Gates Jr.
- Narrado por: Dominic Hoffman
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 47
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 35
Most African Americans, in tracing their family’s past, encounter a series of daunting obstacles. Slavery was a brutally efficient nullifier of identity, willfully denying Black men and women even their names. Here, scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr., backed by an elite team of geneticists and researchers, takes 19 extraordinary African Americans on a once unimaginable journey, tracing family sagas through US history and back to Africa.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing
- De Placeholder en 04-17-19
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It Was All a Dream
- A New Generation Confronts the Broken Promise to Black America
- De: Reniqua Allen
- Narrado por: Shayna Small
- Duración: 12 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Reniqua Allen tells the stories of Black millennials searching for a better future in spite of racist policies that have closed off traditional versions of success. Many watched their parents and grandparents play by the rules, only to sink deeper and deeper into debt. They witnessed their elders fight to escape cycles of oppression for more promising prospects, largely to no avail. Today, in this post-Obama era, they face a critical turning point. Interweaving her own experience, Allen shares surprising stories of hope and ingenuity.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Great statistics and facts
- De Eve en 05-18-19
De: Reniqua Allen
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Created Equal
- Clarence Thomas in His Own Words
- De: Michael Pack, Mark Paoletta
- Narrado por: Charles Constant, Shamaan Casey, Pamela Klein
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 231
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 207
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 206
Born into dire poverty in the segregated South and abandoned by his father as a child, Justice Clarence Thomas triumphed over seemingly insurmountable odds to become one of the most influential justices on the Supreme Court. Yet after three decades of honorable service, few know him beyond his contentious confirmation and the surrounding media firestorm. Who is Justice Clarence Thomas, in his own words? Created Equal builds on dozens of hours of groundbreaking one-on-one interviews with Thomas to share a new, expanded account of his powerful story for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Justice Thomas, the epitome of a “Real American Man”!
- De the walton's en 06-23-22
De: Michael Pack, y otros
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We Are Each Other's Harvest
- Celebrating African American Farmers, Land, and Legacy
- De: Natalie Baszile
- Narrado por: Tina Lifford
- Duración: 13 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 45
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 41
In this impressive anthology, Natalie Baszile brings together essays, poems, quotes, conversations, and first-person stories to examine Black people’s connection to the American land from Emancipation to today. We Are Each Other’s Harvest elevates the voices and stories of Black farmers and people of color, celebrating their perseverance and resilience, while spotlighting the challenges they continue to face. Luminous and eye-opening, this eclectic collection helps people and communities of color today reimagine what it means to be dedicated to the soil.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Various Voices
- De Peggy Sweeney en 11-06-21
De: Natalie Baszile
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Reclamation
- Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
- De: Gayle Jessup White
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors - both the enslaver and the enslaved.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow start, eventually a worthwhile story
- De ChocolateDweller en 12-17-21
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Say I'm Dead
- A Family Memoir of Race, Secrets, and Love
- De: E. Dolores Johnson
- Narrado por: Allyson Johnson
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 33
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 33
Fearful of prison time - or lynching - for violating Indiana’s anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's Black father and White mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry in Buffalo. Her mother simply vanished, evading an FBI and police search that ended with the declaration to her family that she was the victim of foul play, either dead or sold into white slavery.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Deeply meaningful important read
- De A.M.Rousseau en 12-21-21
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Permission to Dream
- De: Chris Gardner, Mim Eichler Rivas
- Narrado por: Chris Gardner
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
On a winter’s day, Chris Gardner set off with his nine-year-old granddaughter Brooke to find the harmonica of her dreams. The search sends them North “beyond the wall” into a foreboding Chicago neighborhood and, soon, on a harrowing adventure that will change both of their lives - and ours.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you, Chris Gardner, for always inspiring us to dream
- De Mellissa Dowling en 10-17-22
De: Chris Gardner, y otros
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Wandering in Strange Lands
- A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots
- De: Morgan Jerkins
- Narrado por: Morgan Jerkins
- Duración: 8 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 66
From the acclaimed cultural critic and New York Times best-selling author of This Will Be My Undoing - a writer whom Roxane Gay has hailed as “a force to be reckoned with” - comes this powerful story of her journey to understand her Northern and Southern roots, the Great Migration, and the displacement of black people across America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Not Just Black History -- It's All Of Our History
- De Ardee en 08-22-20
De: Morgan Jerkins
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The Warmth of Other Suns
- The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
- De: Isabel Wilkerson
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 22 h y 40 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13,994
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 12,363
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 12,305
From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history. She interviewed more than a thousand people, and gained access to new data and official records, to write this definitive and vividly dramatic account of how these American journeys unfolded, altering our cities, our country, and ourselves.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Superior non-fiction
- De Lila en 05-20-11
De: Isabel Wilkerson
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How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America
- Essays
- De: Kiese Laymon
- Narrado por: Kevin Free
- Duración: 3 h y 54 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 224
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 196
Author and essayist Kiese Laymon is one of the most unique, stirring, and powerful new voices in American social and cultural commentary. How to Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America is a collection of Laymon's essays, touching on subjects ranging from family, race, violence, and celebrity to music, writing, and coming of age in the rural Mississippi Gulf Coast. Laymon's writing is unflinchingly honest, while also being smart, lacerating, and unexpectedly funny.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I'm Stunned By This Collection
- De Rachel en 10-17-17
De: Kiese Laymon
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My Grandfather's Son
- A Memoir
- De: Clarence Thomas
- Narrado por: Clarence Thomas
- Duración: 11 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 765
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 687
Provocative, inspiring, and unflinchingly honest, My Grandfather's Son is the story of one of America's most remarkable and controversial leaders, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told in his own words.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful read
- De Amazon Customer en 10-17-21
De: Clarence Thomas