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    • An American City In Black And White
    • By: William Sturkey
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 06-25-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • If you really want to understand Jim Crow - what it was and how African Americans rose up to defeat it - you should start by visiting Mobile Street in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, the heart of the historic black downtown....

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    • A Jake Brigance Novel
    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Series: Jake Brigance, Book 3
    • Length: 19 hrs and 59 mins
    • Release date: 10-13-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 19,328 ratings
    • Clanton, Mississippi. 1990. Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a deeply divisive trial when the court appoints him attorney for Drew Gamble, a timid sixteen-year-old boy accused of murdering a local deputy....

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    • A Liam Dempsey Thriller, Book 1
    • By: Joe Hart
    • Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
    • Series: A Liam Dempsey Thriller, Book 1
    • Length: 7 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 10-14-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1,309 ratings
    • In a small town along the Mississippi River, separate but nearly identical attacks have left two married couples brutally murdered in their homes....

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    • Mississippi's Longest Civil War
    • By: Victoria E. Bynum
    • Narrated by: Mahershala Ali
    • Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-16
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 209 ratings
    • Actor Mahershala Ali performs the gripping tale of an armed band of Confederate deserters and slaves living in a mixed-race community who rose up against the Confederate Cavalry in 1863....

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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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    • The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
    • By: Gene Roberts, Hank Klibanoff
    • Narrated by: Richard Allen
    • Length: 21 hrs and 32 mins
    • Release date: 09-18-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 170 ratings
    • This is the story of how America awakened to its race problem, of how a nation that longed for unity came to see, hear, and learn about the shocking indignities of racial segregation....

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    • The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
    • By: Bruce Watson
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 14 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 06-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 187 ratings
    • In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks....

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    • By: John Grisham
    • Narrated by: Michael Beck
    • Series: Lucien Wilbanks, Book 1, Jake Brigance, Book 1, Harry Rex Vonner, Book 1
    • Length: 16 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 03-01-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 5,475 ratings
    • Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a 10-year-old black girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her father acquires an assault rifle - and takes justice into his own outraged hands....

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    • Union Sailors, Gunboat Captains, and the Campaign to Control the River
    • By: Barbara Brooks Tomblin
    • Narrated by: Aaron Killian
    • Length: 14 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • During the Civil War, both sides believed that whoever controlled the Mississippi River would ultimately be victorious....

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    • By: Dan Egan
    • Narrated by: Jason Culp
    • Length: 12 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 03-07-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 629 ratings
    • In an age when dire problems like the Flint water crisis or the California drought bring ever more attention to the indispensability of safe, clean, easily available water, The Death and the Life of the Great Lakes is a powerful paean to what is arguably our most precious resource....

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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
    • She was born the 20th child in a family that had lived in the Mississippi Delta for generations, first as enslaved people and then as sharecroppers. She left school at 12 to pick cotton, as those before her had done, in a world where white supremacy was an unassailable citadel....

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    • A Novel
    • By: Percival Everett
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 7 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 03-15-22
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 288 ratings
    • Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi....

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    • Fannie Lou Hamer and the Rhetoric of the Black Freedom Movement
    • By: Maegan Parker Brooks
    • Narrated by: Kristyl Dawn Tift
    • Length: 13 hrs
    • Release date: 01-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 27 ratings
    • Fannie Lou Hamer stands as a powerful symbol not only of the 1960s Black freedom movement, but also of the enduring human struggle against oppression....

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    • The Jackson Woolworth's Sit-In and the Movement It Inspired
    • By: M.J. O'Brien
    • Narrated by: Mike McCartney
    • Length: 13 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 08-12-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 6 ratings
    • Part multifaceted biography, part well-researched history, this gripping narrative explores the hearts and minds of those participating in this harrowing sit-in experience....

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    • The Authentic Narrative of My Music and Culture
    • By: Chris Thomas King
    • Narrated by: Adam Lazarre-White
    • Length: 24 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 10 ratings
    • All prior histories on the blues have alleged it originated on plantations in the Mississippi Delta. Not true, says author Chris Thomas King. In The Blues, King presents facts to disprove such myths....

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    • My Brother's Story of Freedom Summer
    • By: Julie P. Kabat
    • Narrated by: Julie P. Kabat
    • Length: 7 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 04-30-24
    • Language: English
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    • An inspiring, deeply personal story about a tumultuous period in civil rights history, Love Letter from Pig: My Brother’s Story of Freedom Summer also addresses ongoing issues of civil rights and racial inequality facing the nation today....

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    • The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory
    • By: Claudio Saunt
    • Narrated by: Stephen Bowlby
    • Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
    • Release date: 03-31-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 110 ratings
    • In May 1830, the United States formally launched a policy to expel Native Americans from the East to territories west of the Mississippi River. Justified as a humanitarian enterprise, the undertaking was to be systematic and rational....

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    • The Incredible Story of Marion Barry, Jr.
    • By: Marion Barry Jr., Omar Tyree
    • Narrated by: Beresford Bennett
    • Length: 13 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Four-time mayor of Washington, DC, Marion Barry, Jr. tells his shocking and courageous life story, beginning in the cotton fields in Mississippi to the executive offices of one of the most powerful cities in the world.

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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
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 103 ratings
    • Emmett Till offers the first truly comprehensive account of the 1955 murder and its aftermath....

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