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    • By: Fredrik deBoer
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 8 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 09-05-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 42 ratings
    • Fredrik deBoer explores American policy reform, or lack thereof, in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter movement and how the country can do better in the future.

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    • A Novel of the 1913 Woman Suffrage Procession
    • By: Jennifer Chiaverini
    • Narrated by: Saskia Maarleveld
    • Length: 10 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 07-27-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • An enthralling historical novel of the woman’s suffrage movement inspired by three courageous women who bravely risked their lives and liberty in the fight to win the vote....

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    • A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
    • By: Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 40 ratings
    • Kate Clifford Larson tells the remarkable story of Fannie Lou Hamer, community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement.

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    • The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
    • By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 134 ratings
    • This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

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    • America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
    • By: Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • 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
    • By: Robin D. G. Kelley
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 95 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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    • A Narrative History of America, 1932 - 1972
    • By: William Manchester
    • Narrated by: Jeff Riggenbach
    • Length: 57 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-13-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 451 ratings
    • This great time capsule of a book captures the abundant popular history of the United States from 1932 to 1972....

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    • By: David Halberstam
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 32 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-06-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • The Children is David Halberstam's brilliant and moving evocation of the early days of the civil rights movement, as seen through the story of the young people - the children - who met in the 1960s and went on to lead the revolution....

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    • A Black, Queer, and Feminist Mandate for Radical Movements
    • By: Charlene Carruthers
    • Narrated by: Charlene Carruthers
    • Length: 5 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 08-28-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 260 ratings
    • Drawing on Black intellectual and grassroots organizing traditions, including the Haitian Revolution, Unapologetic challenges all of us engaged in the social justice struggle to make the movement for Black liberation more radical, more queer, and more feminist....

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    • The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Devery S. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Brandon Church
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 105 ratings
    • Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • Fannie Lou Hamer's Enduring Message to America
    • By: Keisha N. Blain
    • Narrated by: Tyra Kennedy
    • Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 10-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • A blend of social commentary, biography, and intellectual history, Until I Am Free is a manifesto for anyone committed to social justice. The book challenges us to listen to a working-poor and disabled Black woman activist and intellectual of the civil rights movement....

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    • Ten Weeks in Birmingham That Changed America
    • By: Paul Kix
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln-Smith
    • Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • Paul Kix takes the listener behind the scenes as he tells the story of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference’s pivotal 10 week campaign in 1963 to end segregation in Birmingham, Alabama....

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    • The Struggle to Shape America
    • By: Frances FitzGerald
    • Narrated by: Jacques Roy
    • Length: 25 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 346 ratings
    • Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Frances FitzGerald tells the powerful, dramatic story of the Evangelical movement in America - from the Puritan era to the 2016 presidential election....

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    • A Story of Chicago, the First Labor Movement and the Bombing That Divided Gilded Age America
    • By: James Green
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 03-12-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 60 ratings
    • On May 4, 1886, a bomb exploded at a Chicago labor rally, wounding dozens of policemen, seven of whom eventually died. A wave of mass hysteria swept the country....

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    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 139 ratings
    • Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one humid Mississippi night in 1966....

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    • By: Jason Stanley
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 4 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 09-10-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 57 ratings
    • From the bestselling author of How Fascism Works, a searing confrontation with the far right’s efforts to rewrite history and undo a century of progress on race, gender, sexuality, and class.

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    • How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
    • By: J. Russell Hawkins
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 09-27-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • Focusing on the case of South Carolina, The Bible Told Them So shows how, despite a defeat in the public sphere with the triumph of the civil rights movement, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity....

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