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The Past Is Never Dead
- The Trial of James Ford Seale and Mississippi's Struggle for Redemption
- Narrado por: Lee David Foreman
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On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found 19-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very Readable
- De Jean en 06-10-16
De: Laurence Leamer
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Devil in the Grove
- Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- De: Gilbert King
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 2,305
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 2,068
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 2,059
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the 20th century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the US Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and to cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve....
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5 out of 5 stars
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the fight for civil rights
- De Jean en 01-17-14
De: Gilbert King
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Hate Crime
- The Story of a Dragging in Jasper, Texas
- De: Joyce King
- Narrado por: Jennifer Van Dyck
- Duración: 7 h y 15 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 25
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
On June 7, 1998, James Byrd, Jr., a 49-year-old black man, was dragged to his death while chained to the back of a pickup truck driven by three young white men. It happened just outside of Jasper, a sleepy East Texas logging town that, within 24 hours of the discovery of the murder, would be inextricably linked in the nation's imagination to an exceptionally brutal, modern-day lynching. In this superbly written examination of the murder and its aftermath, award-winning journalist Joyce King brings us on a journey that begins at the crime scene.
De: Joyce King
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Blood Done Sign My Name
- A True Story
- De: Timothy B. Tyson
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 11 h y 54 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 192
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 139
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 141
On May 11, 1970, Henry Marrow, a 23-year-old Black veteran, walked into a crossroads store owned by Robert Teel and came out running. Teel and two of his sons chased and beat Marrow, then killed him in public as he pleaded for his life. Like many small Southern towns, Oxford had barely been touched by the civil rights movement. But in the wake of the killing, young African Americans took to the streets. While lawyers battled in the courthouse, the Klan raged in the shadows and Black Vietnam veterans torched the town’s tobacco warehouses.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Is A Very Good Book
- De Caleb en 03-22-05
De: Timothy B. Tyson
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Emmett Till
- The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
- De: Devery S. Anderson
- Narrado por: Brandon Church
- Duración: 21 h y 7 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath. It tells the story of Emmett Till, the 14-year-old African American boy from Chicago brutally lynched for a harmless flirtation at a country store in the Mississippi Delta. His death and the acquittal of his killers by an all-white jury set off a firestorm of protests that reverberated all over the world and spurred on the civil rights movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An important story narrated with power and warmth
- De R. Nance en 10-04-16
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Good Kids, Bad City
- A Story of Race and Wrongful Conviction in America
- De: Kyle Swenson
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 11 h y 3 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 24
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 21
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 21
In the early 1970s, three African American men - Wiley Bridgeman, Kwame Ajamu, and Rickey Jackson - were accused and convicted of the brutal robbery and murder of a man outside of a convenience store in Cleveland, Ohio. Almost four decades later, the men were exonerated. But while their exoneration may have ended one of American history’s most disgraceful miscarriages of justice, the corruption and decay of the city responsible for their imprisonment remain on trial.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Life is not fair, but the hearts of these men!
- De Maureen Delaney en 03-24-19
De: Kyle Swenson
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In Contempt
- De: Christopher A. Darden, Jess Walter - contributor
- Narrado por: Christopher Darden
- Duración: 2 h y 45 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 180
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 150
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 151
This number-one New York Times best seller is an unflinching look at what the television cameras could not show: behind-the-scenes meetings, the deteriorating relationships between the defense and prosecution teams, the taunting, baiting, and pushing matches between Darden and Simpson, the intimate relationship between Darden and Marcia Clark, and the candid factors behind Darden's controversial decision for Simpson to try on the infamous glove, and much more.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Author-narrated/well-written - yet abridged
- De J.Chin en 06-28-16
De: Christopher A. Darden, y otros
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Blood at the Root
- A Racial Cleansing in America
- De: Patrick Phillips
- Narrado por: Patrick Phillips
- Duración: 7 h y 9 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 320
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 279
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 279
National Book Award finalist Patrick Phillips tells Forsyth's tragic story in vivid detail and traces its long history of racial violence all the way back to antebellum Georgia. Recalling his own childhood in the 1970s and '80s, Phillips sheds light on the communal crimes of his hometown and the violent means by which locals kept Forsyth all white well into the 1990s.
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5 out of 5 stars
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when is white history month?
- De Bailey en 03-06-18
De: Patrick Phillips
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The Other Side of the River
- A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
- De: Alex Kotlowitz
- Narrado por: Stanley Tucci
- Duración: 5 h y 37 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 89
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 69
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 68
In The Other Side of the River, his eagerly awaited new book, Kotlowitz takes us to southern Michigan. Here, separated by the St. Joseph River, are two towns, St. Joseph and Benton Harbor. Geographically close, they are worlds apart, a living metaphor for America's racial divisions: St. Joseph is a prosperous lakeshore community and 95 percent white, while Benton Harbor is impoverished and 92 percent black. When the body of a black teenaged boy from Benton Harbor is found in the river, unhealed wounds and suspicions between the two towns' populations surface as well.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thought Provoking Book
- De Patrick en 02-03-18
De: Alex Kotlowitz
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Bending Toward Justice
- The Birmingham Church Bombing That Changed the Course of Civil Rights
- De: Doug Jones, Greg Truman, Rick Bragg - foreword
- Narrado por: Doug Jones
- Duración: 15 h y 3 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 60
On September 15, 1963, the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL, was bombed, killing four young girls. Who were the perpetrators? Due to reluctant witnesses and racial prejudice, the FBI closed the case without any indictments. But as Martin Luther King, Jr., claimed, "the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Bending Toward Justice is a detailed account of this key moment in our national struggle for equality and the long road to prosecuting those responsible for the tragedy, related by an author who played a major role in the investigation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great piece of History
- De rita en 03-08-19
De: Doug Jones, y otros
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Righteous Troublemakers
- Untold Stories of the Social Justice Movement in America
- De: Al Sharpton
- Narrado por: Al Sharpton
- Duración: 10 h
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General5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 23
Righteous Troublemakers shines a light on everyday people called to do extraordinary things—like Pauli Murray, whose early work inspired Thurgood Marshall, Claudette Colvin, who refused to give up her seat on a segregated bus months before Rosa Parks did the same, and Gwen Carr, whose private pain in losing her son Eric Garner stoked her public activism against police brutality. Sharpton also gives his personal take on more widely known individuals, revealing overlooked details, historical connections, and a perspective informed by years of working in the social justice movement.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank God for this book knowledge is power
- De JOAN REID en 02-23-22
De: Al Sharpton
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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse
- De: Peter Matthiessen
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 28 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 137
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On a hot June morning in 1975, a fatal shoot-out took place between FBI agents and American Indians on a remote property near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in which an Indian and two federal agents were killed. Eventually, four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges in the deaths of the two agents. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Must read for a true picture of america
- De N. Duvall en 07-21-16
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Tulia
- Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
- De: Nate Blakeslee
- Narrado por: James Boles
- Duración: 13 h y 54 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 211
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 131
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 129
Early one morning in the summer of 1999, authorities in the tiny West Texas town of Tulia began a roundup of suspected drug dealers. By the time the sweep was done, over 40 people had been arrested and one of every five black adults in town was behind bars, all accused of dealing cocaine to the same undercover officer, Tom Coleman.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Must Read
- De JOHN en 03-23-08
De: Nate Blakeslee
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Little Shoes
- The Sensational Depression-Era Murders That Became My Family's Secret
- De: Pamela Everett
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 7 h y 2 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 104
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 91
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 91
In the summer of 1937, a California crime stunned an already grim nation. Three little girls were lured away from a neighborhood park to unthinkable deaths. After a frantic week-long manhunt for the killer, a suspect emerged. Justice was swift, and the condemned man was buried away with the horrifying story. But decades later, Pamela Everett, a lawyer and former journalist, starts digging, following up a cryptic comment her father once made about losing two of his sisters. Everett unearths a truly historic legal case that included the genesis of modern sex offender laws and the last man sentenced to hang in California.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Masterful presentation of secrets and crime case!
- De deb en 05-31-18
De: Pamela Everett
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Claudette Colvin
- Twice Toward Justice
- De: Phillip Hoose
- Narrado por: Channie Waites
- Duración: 3 h y 38 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 146
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 116
On March 2, 1955, a slim, bespectacled teenager refused to give up her seat to a white woman on a segregated bus in Mont-gomery, Alabama. Shouting "It's my constitutional right!" as police dragged her off to jail, Claudette Colvin decided she'd had enough of the Jim Crow segregation laws that had angered and puzzled her since she was a young child.
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4 out of 5 stars
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The funny yet touching story of women leders!
- De Talia en 02-06-12
De: Phillip Hoose
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Buried in the Bitter Waters
- The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
- De: Elliot Jaspin
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 161
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 128
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 128
"Leave now, or die!" From the heart of the Midwest to the Deep South, from the mountains of North Carolina to the Texas frontier, words like these have echoed through more than a century of American history. The call heralded not a tornado or a hurricane, but a very unnatural disaster: a manmade wave of racial cleansing that purged black populations from counties across the nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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a compelling read with a disappointing conclusion
- De Gregory en 12-16-07
De: Elliot Jaspin
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At the Dark End of the Street
- Black Women, Rape, and Resistance - A New History of the Civil Rights Movement from Rosa Parks to the Rise of Black Power
- De: Danielle L. McGuire
- Narrado por: Robin Miles
- Duración: 10 h y 52 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 109
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 84
In this groundbreaking and important book, Danielle McGuire writes about the rape in 1944 of a 24-year-old mother and sharecropper, Recy Taylor, who strolled toward home after an evening of singing and praying at the Rock Hill Holiness Church in Abbeville, Alabama. Seven white men, armed with knives and shotguns, ordered the young woman into their green Chevrolet, raped her, and left her for dead. The president of the local NAACP branch office sent his best investigator and organizer to Abbeville. Her name was Rosa Parks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Difficult topic, trigger warnings apply
- De Adam Shields en 08-03-22