Civil Rights History

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    • Twelve Unsung Americans Who Changed the Course of History, from the Founding to the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Sharon McMahon
    • Narrated by: Sharon McMahon
    • Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 09-24-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,065 ratings
    • From America’s favorite government teacher, a “fascinating and fun” (Adam Grant) portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 46 ratings
    • 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • 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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    • A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1968
    • By: Thomas E. Ricks
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 10-04-22
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • #1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas E. Ricks offers a groundbreaking new take on the Civil Rights Movement, stressing its unexpected use of military strategy and its lessons for nonviolent resistance around the world....

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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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1,033 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 the Supreme Court Empowered the Police and Subverted Civil Rights
    • By: Erwin Chemerinsky
    • Narrated by: Perry Daniels
    • Length: 11 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 08-24-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Presumed Guilty reveals how the Supreme Court allows the perpetuation of racist policing by presuming that suspects, especially people of color, are guilty....

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    • Armed Resistance and the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Lance Hill
    • Narrated by: Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Length: 13 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 17 ratings
    • In 1964 a group of African American men in Jonesboro, Louisiana, defied the nonviolence policy of the mainstream civil rights movement and formed an armed self-defense organization - the Deacons for Defense and Justice - to protect movement workers from vigilante and police violence....

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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 141 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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    • 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
    • 5 out of 5 stars 86 ratings
    • 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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    • General Knowledge
    • By: iMinds
    • Narrated by: Todd MacDonald
    • Length: 6 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 33 ratings
    • Learn about the development of Civil Rights with iMindsJNR audio learning series for younger minds....

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    • How the Government Betrayed a Landmark Civil Rights Law
    • By: Nikole Hannah-Jones
    • Narrated by: Steven Menasche
    • Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 361 ratings
    • ProPublica’s groundbreaking investigation into housing segregation, and the federal government’s large-scale failure to uphold the laws meant to prevent it....

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    • The True Story of the Spy Network that Tried to Destroy the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Rick Bowers
    • Narrated by: Peter Jay Fernandez
    • Length: 2 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 21 ratings
    • During the civil rights movement, the state of Mississippi created an elaborate spy network....

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    • The Uses and Misuses of Civil Rights History
    • By: Jeanne Theoharis
    • Narrated by: Kim Staunton
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 01-30-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 89 ratings
    • Praised by The New York Times; O, The Oprah Magazine; Bitch Magazine; Slate; Publishers Weekly; and more, this is "a bracing corrective to a national mythology" (New York Times) around the civil rights movement....

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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
    • 4 out of 5 stars 32 ratings
    • The Civil Rights Act of 1964 was the single most important piece of legislation passed by Congress in American history....

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    • How Poverty, Labor Fights, and Civil Rights set the Stage for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Final Hours
    • By: Ann Bausum
    • Narrated by: Corey Allen
    • Length: 2 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 12-04-12
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In early 1968 the grisly on-the-job deaths of two African-American sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, prompted an extended strike by that city's segregated force of trash collectors....

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    • The Rise of America's Second Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Juan Williams
    • Narrated by: Juan Williams
    • Length: 9 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 01-14-25
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2 ratings
    • In this highly anticipated follow-up to Eyes on the Prize, bestselling author Juan Williams turns his attention to the rise of a new 21st-century civil rights movement.

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    • A History of Race and Rights in Antebellum America
    • By: Martha S. Jones
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Length: 8 hrs and 58 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • Birthright Citizens tells how African American activists radically transformed the terms of citizenship for all Americans....

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    • America's First Civil Rights Movement from the Revolution to Reconstruction
    • By: Kate Masur
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 14 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 06-22-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings
    • A groundbreaking history of the movement for equal rights that courageously battled racist laws and institutions, North and South, in the decades before the Civil War....

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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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