Civil Rights Biography

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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
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    • 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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    • Everything You Already Know About Your Own Racism and How to Do Better
    • By: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao
    • Narrated by: Regina Jackson, Saira Rao, Deanna Anthony
    • Length: 6 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 11-01-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 289 ratings
    • As the founders of Race2Dinner, an organization which facilitates conversations between white women about racism and white supremacy, Regina Jackson and Saira Rao have noticed white women's tendency to maintain a veneer of niceness, and strive for perfection....

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    • Constance Baker Motley and the Struggle for Equality
    • By: Tomiko Brown-Nagin
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 15 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 01-25-22
    • Language: English
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    • Civil Rights Queen captures the story of a remarkable American life, a figure who remade law and inspired the imaginations of African Americans across the country.

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    • A History from Beginning to End
    • By: Hourly History
    • Narrated by: Matthew J. Chandler-Smith
    • Series: American Civil War
    • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
    • Release date: 08-30-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Civil Rights Movement in America is a broad term for the movement in the mid-20th century among and for the African American community in pursuit of equal protection and rights under the law....

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    • General Knowledge
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Todd MacDonald
    • Length: 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-09
    • Language: English
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    • Learn about the development of Civil Rights with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds....

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    • America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965
    • By: Juan Williams, Julian Bond - introduction
    • Narrated by: Sean Crisden
    • Length: 11 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 07-03-18
    • Language: English
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    • From leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr., to lesser-known figures such as Barbara Rose Johns and Jim Zwerg, each man and woman made the decision that something had to be done to stop discrimination....

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    • By: Mercury Studios, Treefort Media
    • Narrated by: Lonnie Ali, John Ramsey
    • Length: 3 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 01-23-25
    • Language: English
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    • Muhammad Ali, never afraid to express himself loudly and boldly, stays true to form in Ali in Me, an eight-part audio series that explores his life and legacy, guided by his own words through never-before-heard audio recordings.

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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
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    • 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 Season of Killing, Racial Madness, and Civil Rights
    • By: Prentice Early Sanders, Bennett Cohen
    • Narrated by: Dave Courvoisier
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 02-27-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 140 ratings
    • On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a White couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young Black men....

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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
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    • 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.

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    • A True Story
    • By: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Narrated by: Timothy B. Tyson
    • Length: 5 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-20-04
    • Language: English
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    • 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....

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    • By: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
    • Narrated by: Dion Graham
    • Length: 51 mins
    • Release date: 04-15-13
    • Language: English
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    • April 16th, the year is 1963. Birmingham, Alabama, has had a spring of nonviolent protests known as the Birmingham Campaign, seeking to draw attention to the segregation against Blacks by the city government and downtown retailers....

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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
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    • 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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    • The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act
    • By: Clay Risen
    • Narrated by: Joel Richards
    • Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-14
    • Language: English
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    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history....

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    • Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
    • By: Eric Foner
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 18 hrs and 7 mins
    • Release date: 10-05-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 524 ratings
    • In this landmark work of deep scholarship and insight, Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America.....

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    • Chief Joseph, Oliver Otis Howard, and the Nez Perce War
    • By: Daniel Sharfstein
    • Narrated by: Joe Barrett
    • Length: 18 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-04-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 197 ratings
    • Oliver Otis Howard thought he was a man of destiny. Chosen to lead the Freedmen's Bureau after the Civil War, the Union Army general was entrusted with the era's most crucial task....

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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
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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....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-30-21
    • Language: English
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    • In this deeply researched biography, Barbara Ransby chronicles civil rights activist Ella Baker's long and rich political career as an organizer, an intellectual, and a teacher....

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    • America in the King Years 1963-65
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards, Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 29 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 08-27-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 87 ratings
    • From Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Branch, the second part of his epic trilogy on Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement....

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