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    • The Murder That Shocked the World and Propelled the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Devery S. Anderson
    • Narrated by: Brandon Church
    • Length: 21 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 104 ratings
    • Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath....

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    • A Story About Family, Race, and What Was Revealed in a Small Town in the Mississippi Delta While Searching for Booker Wright
    • By: Yvette Johnson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 204 ratings
    • Johnson travels back to Greenwood, Mississippi, a beautiful Southern town steeped in secrets and a scarred past, to interview family members about the real Booker Wright....

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    • A Reckoning of Memory and Murder in the Mississippi Delta
    • By: Beverly Lowry
    • Narrated by: Beverly Lowry
    • Length: 16 hrs and 26 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • In 1948, in the most stubbornly Dixiefied corner of the Jim Crow south, society matron Idella Thompson was viciously murdered in her own home: stabbed at least 150 times and left facedown in one of the bathrooms....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Neil White
    • Narrated by: Taber Burns
    • Length: 8 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 01-29-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 282 ratings
    • Neil White, a journalist and magazine publisher, wanted the best for those he loved - nice cars, beautiful homes, luxurious clothes....

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    • By: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrated by: Rhett Samuel Price
    • Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 504 ratings
    • Mississippi, 1955: 14-year-old Emmett Till was murdered by a white mob after making flirtatious remarks to a white woman, Carolyn Bryant....

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    • Thurgood Marshall and the Supreme Court Nomination That Changed America
    • By: Wil Haygood
    • Narrated by: Dominic Hoffman
    • Length: 14 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 09-15-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 244 ratings
    • Award-winning author Wil Haygood details the life and career of one of the most transformative legal minds of the past 100 years....

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    • The Mississippi Delta and the Roots of Regional Identity
    • By: James C. Cobb
    • Narrated by: David Stifel
    • Length: 20 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 09-28-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • This crescent of bottomlands between Memphis and Vicksburg, lined by the Yazoo and Mississippi rivers, remains in some ways what it was in 1860: a land of rich soil, wealthy planters, and desperate poverty - the blackest and poorest counties in all the South....

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    • Stories
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: John Grisham
    • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 11-03-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,450 ratings
    • This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America's favorite storyteller....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: John Howels
    • Length: 15 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • "Life on the Mississippi" (1883) is a memoir by Mark Twain of his days as a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River before the American...

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    • The History and Legacy of the Freedom Summer Murders at the Height of the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Scott Clem
    • Length: 1 hr and 6 mins
    • Release date: 03-13-17
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 11 ratings
    • One of the most notorious crimes during the Civil Rights Movement was the murder of three civil rights workers in Philadelphia, Mississippi in June 1964....

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    • Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist (Willie Morris Books in Memoir and Biography)
    • By: John N. Herbers
    • Narrated by: Kirk Winkler
    • Length: 12 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Former New York Times correspondent John N. Herbers (1923-2017), who covered the civil rights movement for more than a decade, has produced Deep South Dispatch: Memoir of a Civil Rights Journalist, a compelling story of national and historical significance....

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    • By: Julie Cantrell
    • Narrated by: Brittany Pressley
    • Length: 10 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 11-14-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,287 ratings
    • Lovey served as the family scapegoat, always bearing the brunt when her Southern belle sister Bitsy threw blame her way. At 18, Lovey fled to Arizona....

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    • A Tragedy of Race, Sex, and Secrets in the Jim Crow South
    • By: Alex Heard
    • Narrated by: J.D. Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs
    • Release date: 05-11-10
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 30 ratings
    • A gripping saga of race and retribution in the Deep South and a story whose haunting details echo the themes of To Kill a Mockingbird....

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    • A Biography of Fannie Lou Hamer
    • By: Kate Clifford Larson
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 13 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Kate Clifford Larson tells the remarkable story of Fannie Lou Hamer, community organizer, women's rights activist, and co-founder of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, drawing on recently declassified sources on both Hamer and the civil rights movement.

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    • A Legal Thriller
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Length: 17 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 10-18-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 11,483 ratings
    • For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings....

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    • The Epic Story of America's Great Migration
    • By: Isabel Wilkerson
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 22 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 12-26-10
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 13,562 ratings
    • From 1915 to 1970, this exodus of almost six million people changed the face of America. Wilkerson compares this epic migration to the migrations of other peoples in history....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Greg Iles
    • Narrated by: Robert Petkoff
    • Series: Penn Cage, Book 5
    • Length: 32 hrs and 17 mins
    • Release date: 04-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 4,153 ratings
    • Former prosecutor Penn Cage and his fiancee, reporter and publisher Caitlin Masters, have barely escaped with their lives....

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    • By: Peniel E. Joseph
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 15 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-02-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • Stokely Carmichael, the charismatic and controversial Black activist, stepped onto the pages of history when he called for "Black Power" during a speech one humid Mississippi night in 1966....

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