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  • Devil in the Grove cover art

    • Devil in the Grove

    • Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
    • By: Gilbert King
    • Narrated by: Peter Francis James
    • Length: 17 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-13
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 49 ratings

    • Winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. The story of Thurgood Marshall's defense - depsite death threats and KKK intimidation - of four Black youths falsely accused of rape....

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    • White Evangelical Racism

    • The Politics of Morality in America
    • By: Anthea Butler
    • Narrated by: Allyson Johnson
    • Length: 3 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 20-04-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings

    • In this clear-eyed, hard-hitting chronicle of American religion and politics, Anthea Butler answers that racism is at the core of conservative evangelical activism and power....

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    • The Souls of Black Folk

    • By: W. E. B. Du Bois
    • Narrated by: Mirron Willis
    • Length: 8 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-10
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 52 ratings

    • rst published in 1903, this collection of 15 essays dared to describe the racism that prevailed at that time in America—and to demand an end to it. The Souls of Black Folk is a classic in the literature of civil rights....

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    • Shocking the Conscience

    • A Reporter's Account of the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Simeon Booker, Carol Mcabe Booker
    • Narrated by: Ronald Clarkson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 54 mins
    • Release date: 05-03-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Within a few years of its first issue in 1951, Jet, a pocket-sized magazine, became the "bible" for news of the civil rights movement....

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    • To Shape a New World

    • Essays on the Political Philosophy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
    • By: Tommie Shelby, Brandon M. Terry
    • Narrated by: Kevin Kenerly, Priya Ayyar, Cary Hite, Robin Miles, Carrington MacDuffie
    • Length: 16 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-12-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Authors Tommie Shelby and Brandon Terry state that the marginalization of Martin Luther King's ideas reflects a romantic consensus history that renders the civil rights movement inherently conservative - an effort not at radical reform but at "living up to" enduring ideals laid down by the nation's founders....

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    • Carry Me Home

    • Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution
    • By: Diane McWhorter
    • Narrated by: Xe Sands
    • Length: 28 hrs and 46 mins
    • Release date: 23-02-21
    • Language: English
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    • The Pulitzer Prize-winning dramatic account of the Civil Rights Era's climactic battle in Birmingham as the movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., brought down the institutions of segregation....

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    • His Truth Is Marching On

    • John Lewis and the Power of Hope
    • By: Jon Meacham, John Lewis - afterword
    • Narrated by: JD Jackson, Jon Meacham
    • Length: 10 hrs
    • Release date: 25-08-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings

    • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime US congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present....

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  • The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. cover art

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  • Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race cover art

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    • Freedom on Trial

    • The First Post-Civil War Battle over Civil Rights and Voter Suppression
    • By: Scott Farris
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 13 hrs and 45 mins
    • Release date: 02-02-21
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Highlighting forgotten Black and White civil rights pioneers and weaving in the story of the author's own great-grandfather's crimes, Freedom on Trial tells a gripping story when race relations in the United States might have taken a dramatically different turn...

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    • Delaying the Dream

    • Southern Senators and the Fight Against Civil Rights, 1938-1965
    • By: Keith M. Finley
    • Narrated by: Shawn Zuzek
    • Length: 11 hrs and 25 mins
    • Release date: 04-08-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • Few historical events lend themselves to such a sharp delineation between right and wrong as does the civil rights struggle....

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    • The Bible Told Them So

    • How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy
    • By: J. Russell Hawkins
    • Narrated by: Mike Chamberlain
    • Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
    • Release date: 27-09-22
    • Language: English
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    • Focusing on the case of South Carolina, The Bible Told Them So shows how, despite a defeat in the public sphere with the triumph of the civil rights movement, white evangelicals continued to battle for their own institutions, preaching and practicing a segregationist Christianity....

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    • We Are Not Yet Equal

    • Understanding Our Racial Divide
    • By: Carol Anderson, Tonya Bolden
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles
    • Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 14-09-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • Carol Anderson's White Rage took the world by storm, landing on the New York Times best-seller list and best book of the year lists from New York Times, Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Review of Books. This compelling young adult adaptation brings her ideas to a new audience....

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    • The Fire Is upon Us

    • James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
    • By: Nicholas Buccola
    • Narrated by: Prentice Onayemi
    • Length: 14 hrs and 42 mins
    • Release date: 01-10-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 16 ratings

    • A remarkable story of race and the American dream, The Fire Is upon Us reveals the deep roots and lasting legacy of a conflict that continues to haunt our politics....

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    • At Canaan's Edge

    • America in the King Years 1965-68
    • By: Taylor Branch
    • Narrated by: Leon Nixon, Janina Edwards
    • Length: 34 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-23
    • Language: English
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    • At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965-68 is the final volume in Taylor Branch's magnificent history of America in the years of the Civil Rights Movement and Vietnam War....

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    • The Best of Enemies

    • Race and Redemption in the New South
    • By: Osha Gray Davidson
    • Narrated by: Keith Sellon-Wright
    • Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 07-11-17
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 4 ratings
    • During the 1960s, as the country struggled with the explosive issue of race, Ann Atwater and C. P. Ellis met on opposite sides of the public school integration issue....

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    • Great Figures of the Civil Rights Movement

    • By: Hasan Kwame Jeffries, The Great Courses
    • Narrated by: Hasan Kwame Jeffries
    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 18-02-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings

    • Malcolm X. Marcus Garvey. Charles Hamilton Houston. Diane Nash. For every well-known figure of the Civil Rights Movement, there are dozens of lesser-known, yet no less significant, activists who helped advance America’s social views and helped shape race relations in this country....

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    • Black Against Empire

    • The History and Politics of the Black Panther Party
    • By: Joshua Bloom, Waldo E. Martin Jr.
    • Narrated by: Ron Butler
    • Length: 18 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 30-04-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 61 ratings
    • Black Against Empire is the first comprehensive overview and analysis of the history and politics of the Black Panther Party. The authors analyze key political questions....

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    • RFK

    • His Words for Our Times
    • By: C. Richard Allen, Edwin O. Guthman, Robert F. Kennedy
    • Narrated by: James Lurie, Jim Meskimen
    • Length: 14 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-18
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

    • In honor of the 50th anniversary of Robert Francis Kennedy’s death, an inspiring collection of his most famous speeches accompanied by commentary from notable historians and public figures....

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    • White Flight

    • Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism
    • By: Kevin M. Kruse
    • Narrated by: Aaron Williamson
    • Length: 13 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 12-02-19
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating

    • In this reappraisal of racial politics, Kevin Kruse explains the causes and consequences of "white flight" in Atlanta and elsewhere. Seeking to understand segregationists on their own terms, White Flight moves past simple stereotypes to explore the meaning of white resistance....

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