Civil Rights Activist

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    • A Personal History of Our Times
    • By: Howard Zinn
    • Narrated by: David Strathairn
    • Length: 8 hrs
    • Release date: 02-28-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 287 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Story of Justice and Redemption
    • By: Bryan Stevenson
    • Narrated by: Bryan Stevenson
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 10-21-14
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 18,435 ratings
    • Bryan Stevenson was a young lawyer when he founded the Equal Justice Initiative, a legal practice dedicated to defending those most desperate and in need: the poor, the wrongly condemned, and women and children trapped in the farthest reaches of our criminal justice system....

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    • The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
    • By: David S. Reynolds
    • Narrated by: P.J. Ochlan
    • Length: 25 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 05-14-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 191 ratings
    • Few historical figures are as intriguing as John Brown, the controversial Abolitionist who used terrorist tactics against slavery and single-handedly changed the course of American history....

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    • Rhetoric or Reality?
    • By: Thomas Sowell
    • Narrated by: James Bundy
    • Length: 4 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 01-18-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 1,038 ratings
    • Thomas Sowell takes a tough, factual look at whether the civil rights movement has lived up to its hopes or its rhetoric....

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    • How Sexual Activists Hijacked the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Voddie T. Baucham Jr.
    • Narrated by: Clayton Brown
    • Length: 5 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Pastor and bestselling author Voddie T. Baucham Jr. equips Christians to fight back against this pervasive sexual identity ideology and stand firm in biblical truths.

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    • By: Jonathan Eig
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 20 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 05-16-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 797 ratings
    • Vividly written and exhaustively researched, Jonathan Eig’s King: A Life is the first major biography in decades of the civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr.—and the first to include recently declassified FBI files.

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    • A Tale of Endurance and Hope, From a Survivor of the Holocaust
    • By: Marione Ingram
    • Narrated by: Teresa DeBerry
    • Length: 6 hrs and 8 mins
    • Release date: 02-01-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 41 ratings
    • An inspiring account from one of history’s darkest moments. Marione Ingram grew up in Hamburg, Germany, in the late 1930s and early 1940s....

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    • The Life and Legacy of H Rap Brown
    • By: Noor Wazwaz, Obaid Siddiqui
    • Narrated by: Noor Wazwaz, Obaid Siddiqui
    • Length: 2 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 137 ratings
    • On a March night in 2000, two deputy sheriffs serving a warrant were shot in Atlanta, Georgia. One was severely wounded while the other would die a day later. The shooting kicked off a large manhunt in search of the alleged cop killer. Four days later in Alabama, authorities found their man.

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    • Memoir of an American Pilgrimage
    • By: Pauli Murray, Patricia Bell-Scott - Introduction by
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 19 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 07-31-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
    • 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....

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    • A Black Woman's Story
    • By: Elaine Brown
    • Narrated by: Elaine Brown
    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 80 ratings
    • Elaine Brown assumed her role as the first and only female leader of the Black Panther Party with these words: “I have all the guns and all the money. I can withstand challenge from without and from within. Am I right, Comrade?” It was August 1974....

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    • The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells
    • By: Ida B. Wells, Alfreda M. Duster - editor
    • Narrated by: Adenrele Ojo
    • Length: 15 hrs and 12 mins
    • Release date: 05-18-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 153 ratings
    • This engaging memoir, originally published 1970, relates Ida B. Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice....

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    • A Memoir of Civil Rights Activism in the Deep South
    • By: Donald A. Jelinek
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 12-22-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.7 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Inspired by a colleague's involvement in the Mississippi Summer Project of 1964, Wall Street attorney Donald A. Jelinek traveled to the Deep South to volunteer as a civil rights lawyer during his three-week summer vacation in 1965. He stayed for three years....

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    • Medgar Evers and the Love Story That Awakened America
    • By: Joy-Ann Reid
    • Narrated by: Joy-Ann Reid
    • Length: 10 hrs and 52 mins
    • Release date: 02-06-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 505 ratings
    • From Joy-Ann Reid, a triumphant work of biography that repositions slain Civil Rights pioneer Medgar Evers at the heart of America's struggle for freedom, and celebrates Myrlie Evers's extraordinary activism after her husband's assassination in the driveway of their Mississippi home.

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    • A Life
    • By: David Greenberg
    • Narrated by: David Sadzin
    • Length: 24 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 10-08-24
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 66 ratings
    • A comprehensive, authoritative biography of Civil Rights icon John Lewis, “the conscience of the Congress,” John Lewis draws on interviews with Lewis and approximately 275 others who knew him at various stages of his life, as well as never-before-used FBI files and documents.

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    • By: Tamika D. Mallory
    • Narrated by: Tamika D. Mallory
    • Length: 13 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 02-11-25
    • Language: English
    • 4.8 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • Trailblazing social justice leader, activist, and cofounder of the Women’s March Tamika D. Mallory shares a raw, heartfelt memoir of perseverance, redemption, and triumph.

    $22.49 or free with 30-day trial

    • Memories of a Nonviolent Warrior
    • By: C. T. Vivian, Steve Fiffer
    • Narrated by: Landon Woodson
    • Length: 6 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 09-14-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.9 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • The wisdom acquired during C. T. Vivian's lifetime is generously shared in It's In the Action, the civil rights legend's memoir of his early life and time in the civil rights movement....

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    • A Life of Reinvention
    • By: Manning Marable
    • Narrated by: G. Valmont Thomas
    • Length: 22 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-11
    • Language: English
    • 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,420 ratings
    • Years in the making, this is the definitive biography of the legendary black activist....

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    • By: Mohamedou Ould Slahi
    • Narrated by: Peter Ganim
    • Length: 14 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 01-20-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.4 out of 5 stars 308 ratings
    • An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantánamo detainee....

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