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Poet, memoirist, labor organizer, and Episcopal priest, Pauli Murray helped transform the law of the land. Arrested in 1940 for sitting in the whites-only section of a Virginia bus, Murray propelled that life-defining event into a Howard law degree and a fight against "Jane Crow" sexism.
Her legal brilliance was pivotal to the overturning of Plessy v. Ferguson, the success of Brown v. Board of Education, and the Supreme Court's recognition that the equal protection clause applies to women; it also connected her with such progressive leaders as Eleanor Roosevelt, Thurgood Marshall, Betty Friedan, and Ruth Bader Ginsberg.
Now Murray is finally getting long-deserved recognition: The first African American woman to receive a doctorate of law at Yale, her name graces one of the university's new colleges. Handsomely republished with a new introduction, Murray's remarkable memoir takes its rightful place among the great civil rights autobiographies of the 20th century.
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- K COOKE
- 05-11-22
Pauli Murray the Trail Blazer
I loved it. This book should be required reading in all US High Schools. What amazing life Pauli Murray had! I am forever smitten.
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- Margaret
- 03-19-22
Incredible person!
This should be required reading for every high school student in the country. What an amazing woman. One person truly can change the world!
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- Julie Christensen
- 02-19-22
Everyone should know who Pauli Murray is!
5 stars for the amazing human we get to know. The 3 stars is a reflection of my general lack of enthusiasm for biographies/autobiographies (I much prefer historical fiction. I need a story line to keep my brain engaged.) But it was worth it to forge ahead to the end.
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- 11-01-21
Extended Life Story Told Well
Well written. Murray gives a very interesting story of a compelling and meaningful life well lived.
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 122
An important, groundbreaking book - two decades in work - that tells the story of the unlikely but history-changing 28-year bond forged between Pauli Murray (granddaughter of a mulatto slave who, against all odds, as a lesbian Black woman, became a lawyer, civil rights pioneer, Episcopal priest, poet, and activist) and Eleanor Roosevelt (first lady of the United States from 1933 to 1948 and human rights internationalist) that critically shaped Eleanor Roosevelt's, and therefore FDR's, view of race and racism in America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring
- By Jean on 02-20-16
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Mirror to America
- The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
- By: John Hope Franklin
- Narrated by: John Hope Franklin
- Length: 7 hrs
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 67
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 42
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Story5 out of 5 stars 42
John Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining 20th-century transformation, the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. A renowned scholar, he has explored that transformation in its myriad aspects, notably in his 3.5 million-copy best seller, From Slavery to Freedom. And he was, and remains, an active participant.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Love story about a history often misunderstood
- By Joy B Joy on 01-23-15
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Common Ground
- A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
- By: J. Anthony Lukas
- Narrated by: Eric Michael Summerer
- Length: 35 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 46
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 40
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 40
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, and the American Book Award, the best-selling Common Ground is much more than the story of the busing crisis in Boston as told through the experiences of three families. As Studs Terkel remarked, it's "gripping, indelible...a truth about all large American cities."
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5 out of 5 stars
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great overview of ethnic sociopolitical background
- By FYFM on 02-03-19
By: J. Anthony Lukas
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- By: Howard Zinn
- Narrated by: David Strathairn
- Length: 8 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 205
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 187
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Story5 out of 5 stars 186
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
- By WILLIAM on 11-27-19
By: Howard Zinn
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My Life, My Love, My Legacy
- By: Coretta Scott King, Barbara Reynolds
- Narrated by: January LaVoy, Phylicia Rashad
- Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 216
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 217
The life story of Coretta Scott King - wife of Martin Luther King Jr., founder of the King Center for Nonviolent Social Change, and singular 20th-century American civil rights activist - as told fully for the first time, toward the end of her life, to one of her closest friends. Born in 1927 to daringly enterprising Black parents in the Deep South, Coretta Scott had always felt called to a special purpose.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Inspirational memoir
- By Jean on 01-30-17
By: Coretta Scott King, and others
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Parting the Waters
- America in the King Years 1954-63
- By: Taylor Branch
- Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards
- Length: 45 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 178
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 156
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Story5 out of 5 stars 155
Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By Judith Princz on 05-15-19
By: Taylor Branch
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The Children
- By: David Halberstam
- Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
- Length: 32 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 41
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Story5 out of 5 stars 41
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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5 out of 5 stars
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thought-provoking and insightful
- By Jonathan Kelman on 04-05-19
By: David Halberstam
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The Bridge
- The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
- By: David Remnick
- Narrated by: Mark Deakins
- Length: 24 hrs and 53 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 143
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 96
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 95
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. From a writer whose gift for illuminating the historical significance of unfolding events is without peer; we have a portrait, at once masterly and fresh, nuanced and unexpected, of a young man in search of himself, and of a rising politician determined to become the first African-American president.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good biography even if you know the story
- By Amr on 12-31-11
By: David Remnick
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Trailblazer
- A Pioneering Journalist's Fight to Make the Media Look More Like America
- By: Dorothy Butler Gilliam
- Narrated by: January LaVoy
- Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 73
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 63
Dorothy Butler Gilliam, whose 50-year-career as a journalist put her in the forefront of the fight for social justice, offers a comprehensive view of racial relations and the media in the US.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Struggled to finish
- By SL41639 on 04-06-20
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A Way Out of No Way
- A Memoir of Truth, Transformation, and the New American Story
- By: Raphael G. Warnock
- Narrated by: Raphael G. Warnock
- Length: 8 hrs and 6 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 148
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 137
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Story5 out of 5 stars 137
Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock occupies a singular place in American life. As senior pastor of Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and now as a senator from Georgia, he is the rare voice who can call out the uncomfortable truths that shape contemporary American life and, at a time of division, summon us all to a higher moral ground.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Yes the Lord does Make Away
- By Smack on 01-22-23
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Living History
- By: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Narrated by: Hillary Rodham Clinton
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,060
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 460
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 454
You've probably heard clips from Senator Clinton's interview with Barbara Walters. But now you can listen to her full account of her years in the White House. Hillary Clinton vividly describes her pain over her husband's betrayal with Monica Lewinky saying that former President Bill Clinton lied to her about the relationship until the weekend before he admitted the nature of it to a grand jury.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dare To Read - She Will Dare To Compete in 2008
- By Michael on 06-17-03
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Long Walk to Freedom
- The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
- By: Nelson Mandela
- Narrated by: Michael Boatman
- Length: 27 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 4,591
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 4,083
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Story5 out of 5 stars 4,069
Nelson Mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in South Africa won him the Nobel Peace Prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, Mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Surprisingly honest autobiography.
- By History on 11-17-11
By: Nelson Mandela
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Michelle Obama
- A Life
- By: Peter Slevin
- Narrated by: Robin Miles
- Length: 15 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 663
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 556
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 553
An inspiring story of a modern American icon, here is the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller’s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago’s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton University and Harvard Law School during the racially charged 1980s and the dilemmas she faced in Chicago.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Inspiring life story
- By Lwazilwenkosi on 11-20-15
By: Peter Slevin
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A Nation of Nations
- A Story of America After the 1965 Immigration Law
- By: Tom Gjelten
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 30
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 27
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 27
In 1950, Fairfax County, Virginia, was 90 percent white, 10 percent African American, with a little more than 100 families who were "other". Currently the African American percentage of the population is about the same, but the Anglo white population is less than 50 percent, and there are families of Asian, African, Middle Eastern, and Latin American origin living all over the county. A Nation of Nations follows the lives of a few immigrants to Fairfax County over recent decades as they gradually "Americanize".
By: Tom Gjelten
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Wilson
- By: A. Scott Berg
- Narrated by: Jeremy Bobb
- Length: 32 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 789
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 709
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 714
A hundred years after his inauguration, Woodrow Wilson still stands as one of the most influential figures of the 20th century, and one of the most enigmatic. And now, after more than a decade of research and writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning author A. Scott Berg has completed Wilson - the most personal and penetrating biography ever written about the 28th President. This is not just Wilson the icon - but Wilson the man.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Well Written & Narrated But Too Much Hero Worship
- By Nostromo on 11-17-13
By: A. Scott Berg
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Jane Crow
- The Life of Pauli Murray
- By: Rosalind Rosenberg
- Narrated by: Janina Edwards
- Length: 18 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 42
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 36
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Story5 out of 5 stars 36
A mixed-race orphan, Murray grew up in segregated North Carolina before escaping to New York, where she attended Hunter College and became a labor activist in the 1930s. When she applied to graduate school at the University of North Carolina, where her white great-great-grandfather had been a trustee, she was rejected because of her race. She went on to graduate first in her class at Howard Law School, only to be rejected for graduate study again at Harvard University this time on account of her sex. Undaunted, Murray forged a singular career in the law.