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    • Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
    • By: Gilbert King
    • Narrated by: Peter Francis James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings
    • Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....

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    • By: W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings
    • rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....

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    • Robert Kennedy's America in Black and White
    • By: Patricia Sullivan
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon
    • Length: 23 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 18-10-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • A leading civil rights historian places Robert Kennedy for the first time at the center of the movement for racial justice of the 1960s―and shows how many of today’s issues can be traced back to that pivotal time....

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    • A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age During the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Carolyn Maull McKinstry
    • Narrated by: Felicia Bullock
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 30-12-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • Fifteen-year-old Carolyn Maull McKinstry was just a few feet away when the Klan - planted bomb that killed four of her friends exploded in the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama....

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    • Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • By: Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Authors Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry state that the marginalization of Martin Luther King's ideas reflects a romantic consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative - an effort not at radical reform but at "living up to" enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders....

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    • The Rise and Fall of the Civil Rights-era Ku Klux Klan
    • By: David Cunningham
    • Narrated by: Brian Holsopple
    • Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 17-12-13
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • In the 1960s, on the heels of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision and in the midst of the growing Civil Rights Movement, Ku Klux Klan activity boomed, reaching an intensity not seen since the 1920s....

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    • In Search of the Beloved Community
    • By: Raymond Arsenault
    • Narrated by: Jaime Lincoln Smith
    • Length: 17 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 30-01-24
    • Language: English
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    • Raymond Arsenault traces John Robert Lewis Lewis's upbringing in rural Alabama, his activism, his championing of voting rights and anti-poverty initiatives, and his decades of service as the "conscience of Congress"....

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    • John Lewis and the Power of Hope
    • By: Jon Meacham, John Lewis - afterword
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Jon Meacham
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime US congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present....

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    • A Story of Race and Resistance
    • By: Mia Bay
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 24-08-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • From stagecoaches and trains to buses, cars, and planes, Traveling Black explores when, how, and why racial restrictions took shape and brilliantly portrays what it was like to live with them....

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    • The Politics of Morality in America
    • By: Anthea Butler
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power....

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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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    • The Life
    • By: John A. Farrell
    • Narrated by: Dan Woren
    • Length: 28 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 28-03-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 143 ratings
    • Brilliantly researched, authoritatively crafted by a prize-winning biographer, this is the Nixon we've been waiting for....

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    • Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights (Pivotal Moments in American History Series)
    • By: Samuel G. Freedman
    • Narrated by: Mike Lenz
    • Series: Pivotal Moments in American History Series
    • Length: 17 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 25-07-23
    • Language: English
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    • During one week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform....

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