African American Womens History

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    • African American Women on the American Railroad
    • By: Miriam Thaggert
    • Narrated by: Madeline McCray
    • Length: 8 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 26-09-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Miriam Thaggert illuminates the stories of African American women as passengers and as workers on the nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century railroad....

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    • Tracking Ancient Africans to The Sciences of The Cosmos
    • By: IMURPHY 111000
    • Narrated by: Ivy Murphy
    • Length: 1 hr and 21 mins
    • Release date: 03-08-2019
    • Language: English
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    • It was a normal day in high school, until one of my instructors began to lecture. That day, he used an inane theory to teach classrooms of students, most of whom were white, to believe that people of African descent were intellectually inferior. I didn’t believe him....

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    • ReVisioning American History, Book 5
    • By: Daina Ramey Berry, Kali Nicole Gross
    • Narrated by: Janina Edwards
    • Series: ReVisioning History
    • Length: 10 hrs and 2 mins
    • Release date: 04-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • In centering Black women’s stories, two award-winning historians seek both to empower African American women and to show their allies that Black women’s unique ability to make their own communities while combatting centuries of oppression is an essential component in our continued resistance....

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    • African American Women in the Civil Rights Movement
    • By: Janet Dewart Bell
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Karen Chilton
    • Length: 7 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 29-05-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In Lighting the Fires of Freedom Janet Dewart Bell shines a light on women’s all-too-often overlooked achievements in the Movement. Through wide-ranging conversations with nine women, we hear what ignited and fueled their activism, as Bell vividly captures their inspiring voices....

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    • Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective
    • By: Keeanga -Yamahtta Taylor
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
    • Release date: 20-03-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The Combahee River Collective, a path-breaking group of radical black feminists, was one of the most important organizations to develop out of the antiracist and women's liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s....

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    • By: Gail Lukasik PhD, Kenyatta D. Berry - foreword
    • Narrated by: Bernadette Dunne
    • Length: 9 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2018
    • Language: English
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    • In the historical context of the Jim Crow South, Gail explores her mother's decision to pass, how she hid her secret even from her own husband, and the price she paid for choosing whiteness....

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    • Power and Politics in the Civil War South
    • By: Stephanie McCurry
    • Narrated by: Teri Schnaubelt
    • Length: 16 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 28-12-2018
    • Language: English
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    • The story of the Confederate States of America has been told many times in heroic narratives. Now, however, Stephanie McCurry tells a different tale. Confederate Reckoning is the story of this political battle in which women and slaves helped to decide the fate of the Confederacy....

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    • A True Story of Slavery and Restitution in America
    • By: W. Caleb McDaniel
    • Narrated by: Paul Heitsch
    • Length: 9 hrs and 51 mins
    • Release date: 14-01-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Born into slavery, Henrietta Wood was taken to Cincinnati and legally freed in 1848. In 1853, a Kentucky deputy sheriff named Zebulon Ward colluded with Wood's employer, abducted her, and sold her back into bondage....

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    • Penguin Modern Classics
    • By: Angela Y. Davis
    • Narrated by: Angela Y. Davis, Natalie Simpson
    • Length: 8 hrs and 16 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Ranging from the age of slavery to contemporary injustices, this groundbreaking history of race, gender and class inequality by the radical political activist Angela Davis offers an alternative view of female struggles for liberation....

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    • Sojourner Truth's Long Walk Toward Freedom
    • By: Gary D. Schmidt
    • Narrated by: Channie Waites
    • Length: 29 mins
    • Release date: 25-09-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Sojourner Truth was born into slavery but possessed a mind and a vision that knew no bounds. So Tall Within traces her life from her painful childhood through her emancipation to her incredible leadership in the movement for rights for both women and African Americans....

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    • White Women and the Politics of White Supremacy
    • By: Elizabeth Gillespie McRae
    • Narrated by: Kirsten Potter
    • Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 31-07-2018
    • Language: English
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    • Examining racial segregation from 1920s to the 1970s, Mothers of Massive Resistance explores the grassroots workers who maintained the system of racial segregation and Jim Crow....

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    • Women, Slavery & Resistance
    • By: Stella Abasa Dadzie
    • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
    • Length: 5 hrs and 49 mins
    • Release date: 20-10-2020
    • Language: English
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    • In A Kick in the Belly, Stella Dadzie follows the evidence and finds women played a distinctly female role in the development of a culture of slave resistance - a role that was not just central, but downright dynamic....

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    • By: A'Lelia Bundles
    • Narrated by: Karen Chilton
    • Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
    • Release date: 15-04-2019
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    • Madam C. J. Walker was beloved within her community for her philanthropy and expanding the local black YMCA, but she couldn't have done that if she weren't the first female self-made millionaire and one of the most successful African American business owners ever....

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    • The Life and Work of New York Fashion Icon Ophelia DeVore
    • By: Alina Mitchell, Audrey Smaltz - foreword
    • Narrated by: LaQuita James
    • Length: 3 hrs and 27 mins
    • Release date: 26-01-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Ophelia DeVore boldly overcame tragedy and hardship to become the first Black model in the United States of America. She possessed grace, finesse, intelligence, natural beauty, and courage....

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    • A Radical Democratic Vision
    • By: Barbara Ransby
    • Narrated by: Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Length: 21 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2021
    • 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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    • Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics
    • By: Anastasia C. Curwood
    • Narrated by: Gina Daniels
    • Length: 17 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 10-01-2023
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    • Shaking up New York and national politics by becoming the first African American congresswoman and, later, the first Black major-party presidential candidate, Shirley Chisholm left an indelible mark as an "unbought and unbossed" firebrand and a leader in politics for meaningful change....

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    • Three Classic Black Women’s Narratives
    • By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Narrated by: Robin Miles, Erica Armstrong Dunbar
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 30-03-2021
    • Language: English
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    • Truth Be Told comprises three powerful narratives written by formerly enslaved women who lived long past emancipation. Each narrative offers a window into time and moves the listener along chronologically from the early years of a new nation, through the Civil War....

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    • A Memoir
    • By: Phyllis Biffle Elmore
    • Narrated by: Phyllis Biffle Elmore
    • Length: 9 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 26-12-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Beautifully written and brilliantly told, Phyllis weaves back and forth through time, piecing together true tales of racism, sexism, and colorism, but also strength and pride, creating a multigenerational patchwork honoring her family and ancestors....

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