Civil Rights History

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    • A History of Feminism in 11 Fights
    • By: Helen Lewis
    • Narrated by: Helen Lewis
    • Length: 9 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 434 ratings
    • Helen Lewis argues that feminism’s success is down to complicated, contradictory, imperfect women who fought each other as well as fighting for equal rights....

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    • The First Post-Civil War Battle over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
    • By: Scott Farris
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Highlighting forgotten Black and White civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn...

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Series: American Civil War
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 30-08-21
    • 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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    • A Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • By: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 53 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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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-21
    • Language: English
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    • 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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    • A History
    • By: Lynn Hunt
    • Narrated by: Siiri Scott
    • Length: 7 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-22
    • 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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    • Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
    • By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 25-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • 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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    • The Rise and Fall of Jack and Bobby
    • By: Richard D. Mahoney
    • Narrated by: Peter Altschuler
    • Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 06-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 107 ratings
    • Books about the Kennedys are legion. Yet missing until now has been the exploration of the bond between Jack and Bobby, and the part that it played in their rise and fall....

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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: 03-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 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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    • The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
    • By: David Carter
    • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
    • Length: 12 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 24-09-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight.

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    • Afghanistan's Hundred-Year War
    • By: Phil Halton
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 13 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 25-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • The first step toward achieving a "solution" to the Afghanistan "problem" is to have a clear-eyed view of what is really driving it....

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    • The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
    • By: Jeanne Theoharis
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement....

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    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 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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    • By: Leo Strauss
    • Narrated by: Clark Cornell
    • Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 14-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-13
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 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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    • A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
    • By: Marione Ingram
    • Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 01-02-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s....

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    • Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    • By: Daniel Sharfstein
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 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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    • By: Curtis Bryant, Kevin Arbouet
    • Narrated by: Tariq Trotter
    • Length: 5 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 08-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • America’s First Women Soldiers
    • By: Elizabeth Cobbs
    • Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
    • Length: 12 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 27-06-17
    • Language: English
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    • This is the story of how America's first women soldiers helped win World War I, earned the vote, and fought the US Army....

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    • Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921
    • By: Tim Madigan
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 25-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • On the morning of June 1, 1921, a white mob numbering in the thousands marched across the railroad tracks dividing black from white in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and obliterated a black community then celebrated as one of America's most prosperous....

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