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- Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
- Narrado por: Lesa Lockford
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Freed Black women organizing for protection in the Reconstruction-era South. Jewish immigrant garment workers braving deadly conditions for a sliver of independence. Asian American fieldworkers rejecting government-sanctioned indentured servitude across the Pacific. Incarcerated workers advocating for basic human rights and fair wages. The queer Black labor leader who helped orchestrate America’s civil rights movement. These are only some of the heroes who propelled American labor’s relentless push for fairness and equal protection under the law.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Eye Opening
- De Chris Haak en 06-13-23
De: Kim Kelly
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: David Strathairn
- Duración: 8 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 239
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 218
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 217
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, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in World War II, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from history and engaging politically, we can make a difference in the world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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mind blowing
- De WILLIAM en 11-27-19
De: Howard Zinn
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America's Women
- 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines (Unabridged Selections)
- De: Gail Collins
- Narrado por: Jane Alexander
- Duración: 6 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 143
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 96
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 95
America's Women tells the story of more than four centuries of history. It features a stunning array of personalities, from the women peering worriedly over the side of the Mayflower to feminists having a grand old time protesting beauty pageants and bridal fairs. Courageous, silly, funny, and heartbreaking, these women shaped the nation and our vision of what it means to be female in America.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not all there
- De Dirk Williams en 04-02-12
De: Gail Collins
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Smoketown
- De: Mark Whitaker
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 88
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 78
Mark Whitaker's Smoketown is a captivating portrait of this unsung community and a vital addition to the story of black America. It depicts how ambitious Southern migrants were drawn to a steel-making city on a strategic river junction; how they were shaped by its schools and a spirit of commerce with roots in the Gilded Age; and how their world was eventually destroyed by industrial decline and urban renewal. Whitaker takes listeners on a rousing, revelatory journey - and offers a timely reminder that Black History is not all bleak.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Hopes for Pittsburgh aka "Up South"
- De Dr. Pepper en 05-01-18
De: Mark Whitaker
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Five Points
- The 19th Century New York City Neighborhood that Invented Tap Dance, Stole Elections, and Became the World's Most Notorious Slum
- De: Tyler Anbinder
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 16 h y 28 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 115
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 95
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 95
All but forgotten today, Five Points was once renowned the world over. Its handful of streets in lower Manhattan featured America's most wretched poverty, shared by Irish, Jewish, German, Italian, Chinese, and African Americans. It was the scene of more riots, scams, saloons, brothels, and drunkenness than any other neighborhood in the new world. The story that Anbinder tells is the classic tale of America's immigrant past, as successive waves of new arrivals fought for survival in a land that was as exciting as it was dangerous, as riotous as it was culturally rich.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great historical piece
- De Jim Braunstein en 08-19-19
De: Tyler Anbinder
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30 Days a Black Man
- The Forgotten Story That Exposed the Jim Crow South
- De: Bill Steigerwald, Juan Williams - foreword
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 12 h y 29 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 201
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 173
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 171
In 1948 most White people in the North had no idea how unjust and unequal daily life was for the 10 million African Americans living in the South. But that suddenly changed after Ray Sprigle, a famous White journalist from Pittsburgh, went undercover and lived as a Black man in the Jim Crow South. Escorted through the South's parallel Black society by John Wesley Dobbs, a historic Black civil rights pioneer from Atlanta, Sprigle met with sharecroppers, local Black leaders, and families of lynching victims.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Review review
- De bill steigerwald en 12-13-20
De: Bill Steigerwald, y otros
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Factory Girls
- From Village to City in a Changing China
- De: Leslie T. Chang
- Narrado por: Susan Ericksen
- Duración: 14 h y 36 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 417
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 260
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 256
A book of global significance that provides new insight into China, Factory Girls demonstrates how the mass movement from rural villages to cities is remaking individual lives and transforming Chinese society, much as immigration to America's shores remade our own country a century ago.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Living in Shenzhen - and What A Disappointment
- De Abstraction en 03-01-10
De: Leslie T. Chang
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A Warrior of the People
- How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America’s First Indian Doctor
- De: Joe Starita
- Narrado por: Carrington MacDuffie
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 54
On March 14, 1889, Susan La Flesche received her medical degree - becoming the first Native American doctor in US history. She earned her degree 31 years before women could vote and 35 years before Indians could become citizens in their own country. This is the story of an Indian woman who effectively became the chief of an entrenched patriarchal tribe, the story of a woman who crashed through thick walls of ethnic, racial, and gender prejudice and then spent the rest of her life using a unique bicultural identity to improve the lot of her people.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Remarkable Woman
- De Jean en 11-27-16
De: Joe Starita
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New World Coming
- The 1920s and the Making of Modern America
- De: Nathan Miller
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 18 h y 28 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 123
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 84
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 84
Jazz. Bootleggers. Flappers. Talkies. Model T Fords. Lindbergh's history-making flight over the Atlantic. The 1920s was also the decade of the hard-won vote for women, racial injustice, censorship, social conflict, and the birth of organized crime.
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5 out of 5 stars
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My High School History Class Never Told
- De Charles Stembridge en 06-29-04
De: Nathan Miller
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Supreme City
- How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America
- De: Donald L. Miller
- Narrado por: Frangione Jim
- Duración: 29 h y 39 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 90
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 85
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 85
In four words - "the capital of everything" - Duke Ellington captured Manhattan during one of the most exciting and celebrated eras in our history: The Jazz Age. Radio, tabloid newspapers, and movies with sound appeared. The silver screen took over Times Square as Broadway became America's movie mecca. Tremendous new skyscrapers were built in Midtown in one of the greatest building booms in history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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the background to the NYC we now live in
- De Marcie en 03-05-15
De: Donald L. Miller
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Harlem
- The Four Hundred Year History from Dutch Village to Capital of Black America
- De: Jonathan Gill
- Narrado por: James Patrick Cronin
- Duración: 19 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Harlem is perhaps the most famous, iconic neighborhood in the United States. A bastion of freedom and the capital of black America, Harlem's 20th-century renaissance changed our arts, culture, and politics forever. But this is only one of the many chapters in a wonderfully rich and varied history. In Harlem, historian Jonathan Gill presents the first complete chronicle of this remarkable place.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Interesting.
- De Joyce Mirowski en 06-05-20
De: Jonathan Gill
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Beale Street Dynasty
- Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
- De: Preston Lauterbach
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 36
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 31
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 31
Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this turmoil emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment. Preston Lauterbach tells this vivid, fascinating story through the multigenerational saga of a family whose ambition, race pride, and moral complexity indelibly shaped the city that would loom so large in American life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Narration Speed...It's Half the Battle
- De B. Westman en 03-21-17
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Street Poison
- The Biography of Iceberg Slim
- De: Justin Gifford
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 10 h y 32 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 72
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 62
From a career as a, yes, ruthless pimp in the '40s and '50s, Iceberg Slim refashioned himself as the first and still the greatest of the "street lit" masters, whose vivid books have made him an icon to such rappers as Ice-T, Jay-Z, and Snoop Dogg and a presiding spirit of "blaxploitation" culture.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A must read for all Robert Beck fans.
- De JMKIII58 en 09-15-16
De: Justin Gifford
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High-Risers
- Cabrini-Green and the Fate of American Public Housing
- De: Ben Austen
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 13 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 117
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
Built in the 1940s atop an infamous Italian slum, Cabrini-Green grew to 23 towers and a population of 20,000 - all of it packed onto just 70 acres a few blocks from Chicago's ritzy Gold Coast. Cabrini-Green became synonymous with crime, squalor, and the failure of government. For the many who lived there, it was also a much-needed resource - it was home. By 2011, every high-rise had been razed, the island of black poverty engulfed by the white affluence around it, the families dispersed.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Cabrini was my home
- De George Dorsey en 10-13-20
De: Ben Austen
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Madame President
- The Extraordinary Journey of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- De: Helene Cooper
- Narrado por: Marlene Cooper Vasilic
- Duración: 12 h y 45 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 139
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 133
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 132
This is the harrowing but triumphant story of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, leader of the Liberian women's movement, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first democratically elected female president in African history.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Enlightening
- De Jean en 04-28-17
De: Helene Cooper
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When Everything Changed
- The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present
- De: Gail Collins
- Narrado por: Christina Moore
- Duración: 15 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 237
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 166
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 160
An enthralling blend of oral history and Gail Collins' keen research, this definitive look at 50 years of feminist progress shimmers with the amusing, down-to-earth liberal tone that is this New York Times columnist's trademark.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The book I have been waiting for!
- De A Teacher en 09-10-10
De: Gail Collins