African American Biography

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    • The Global Odyssey of a Black Woman Scholar
    • Auteur(s): Barbara D. Savage
    • Narrateur(s): Machelle Williams
    • Durée: 10 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-01-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Born in rural Michigan during the Jim Crow era, the bold and irrepressible Merze Tate (1905-1996) refused to limit her intellectual ambitions, despite living in what she called a "sex and race discriminating world"....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Why Jesse Jackson Matters
    • Auteur(s): David Masciotra, Michael Eric Dyson - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Vaughn Johseph
    • Durée: 11 h et 52 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-07
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • There are few figures and leaders of recent American history of greater social and political consequence than Jesse Jackson, and few more relevant for America’s current political climate. David Masciotra argues that Jackson’s legacy must be rehabilitated in the history of American politics....

    Prix courant: 24,58 $

    • My Unlikely Journey from the Street to the Stars
    • Auteur(s): Hakeem Oluseyi, Joshua Horwitz
    • Narrateur(s): Hakeem Oluseyi
    • Durée: 7 h et 41 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-15
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Renowned American astrophysicist Hakeem Oluseyi pens a gripping, gritty coming-of-age memoir, from young boy to graduate-school student, that will resonate with teenagers, especially those of color, who are facing many choices and obstacles as they navigate their young adult lives.

    Prix courant: 20,98 $

    • An Enslaved Preacher's Climb to Freedom
    • Auteur(s): Larry Eugene
    • Narrateur(s): Terrence Kidd
    • Durée: 10 h et 30 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • James Page spent the majority of his life enslaved - during which time he experienced the death of his free father, witnessed his mother and brother being sold on the auction block, and was forcibly moved 700 miles south from Richmond, Virginia, to Tallahassee, Florida, by his enslaver....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
    • Auteur(s): Gayle Jessup White
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 9 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-11-16
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors - both the enslaver and the enslaved....

    Prix courant: 31,46 $

    • The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature
    • Auteur(s): Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Narrateur(s): Farah Jasmine Griffin
    • Durée: 7 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-09-14
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Farah Jasmine Griffin’s father died when she was nine, bequeathing her an unparalleled inheritance in closets full of remarkable books and other records of Black genius. In Read Until You Understand - a line from a note he wrote to her - she shares a lifetime of discoveries....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The Four Seasons of Jackie Robinson
    • Auteur(s): Kostya Kennedy
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Kenerly
    • Durée: 9 h
    • Date de publication: 2022-08-23
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • True is a probing, richly detailed, unique biography of Jackie Robinson, one of baseball’s―and America’s―most significant figures....

    Prix courant: 17,50 $

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    • Speeches and Writings
    • Auteur(s): Zinga A. Fraser
    • Narrateur(s): Karen Chilton
    • Durée: 9 h et 34 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-10-08
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • LOOKING BEYOND HER POLITICAL SYMBOLISM TO CELEBRATE NOT ONLY WHO SHIRLEY CHISHOLM WAS BUT WHO SHE IS—A REVOLUTIONARY THINKER WITH MUCH TO TEACH US TODAY.

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • A Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Keeonna Harris
    • Narrateur(s): Bahni Turpin
    • Durée: 7 h et 42 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-02-11
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Activist and prison abolitionist Keeonna Harris shares a powerful exploration of self-resilience, family, and community.

    Prix courant: 25,63 $

    • A Family Memoir
    • Auteur(s): Omo Moses
    • Narrateur(s): Kevin Free
    • Durée: 9 h et 56 min
    • Date de publication: 2025-01-21
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • The son of legendary civil rights organizer Robert P. Moses shares a brilliant, unflinching memoir about becoming Black in America that interweaves voices from 3 generations of the Moses family.

    Prix courant: 24,24 $

    • Heroes of History
    • Auteur(s): Janet Benge, Geoff Benge
    • Narrateur(s): Tim Gregory
    • Durée: 5 h et 9 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-12-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Escaping from slavery, Frederick Douglass became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in America, the greatest orator of his day, an influential newspaper publisher, writer, and statesman, and the most important African American of the nineteenth century....

    Prix courant: 26,00 $

    • The Mighty Voice of Paul Robeson
    • Auteur(s): Susan Goldman Rubin
    • Narrateur(s): James Shippy
    • Durée: 5 h et 51 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
    • Pas de évaluations
    • Acclaimed nonfiction writer Susan Goldman Rubin conducted extensive research, visiting key Robeson sites and working with noted Robeson scholars, to bring to life one of the most important voices in American history....

    Prix courant: 17,81 $

    • How the Children of the Mississippi Freedom Struggle Showed Us Tomorrow
    • Auteur(s): Robert H. Mayer, Leslie-Burl McLemore - foreword
    • Narrateur(s): Bill Andrew Quinn
    • Durée: 6 h
    • Date de publication: 2023-06-13
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • The killing of Emmett Till is widely remembered today as one of the most famous examples of lynchings in America. African American children in 1955 personally felt the terror of his murder....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • The Life and Times of Shirley Chisholm
    • Auteur(s): Drs. Glenn L. Starks, F. Erik Brooks
    • Narrateur(s): Kim Staunton
    • Durée: 10 h et 25 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-05-14
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisolm rose from being the child of immigrants to running for the highest office in the land. She was both the first African American woman elected to the US Congress and the first African American woman of a major political party to make a serious run for president.

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • The Extraordinary Story of Love, Civil Rights, and Labor Activism
    • Auteur(s): Norman Hill, Velma Murphy Hill
    • Narrateur(s): Arnell Powell, Kim Staunton
    • Durée: 13 h et 44 min
    • Date de publication: 2024-02-06
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Climbing the Rough Side of the Mountain is the remarkable story of a couple who came together during the Civil Rights Movement and made fighting for equality and civil and workers’ rights their purpose for more than sixty years....

    Prix courant: 27,83 $

    • Auteur(s): Vera Pigee, Françoise N. Hamlin - editor
    • Narrateur(s): Lisa Reneé Pitts
    • Durée: 9 h et 48 min
    • Date de publication: 2023-08-08
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • From 1955 to 1975, Vera Pigee (1924-2007) put her life and livelihood on the line with grassroots efforts for social change in Mississippi, principally through her years of leadership in Coahoma County's NAACP....

    Prix courant: 22,26 $

    • Auteur(s): John Thompson
    • Narrateur(s): Larry Herron
    • Durée: 4 h et 1 min
    • Date de publication: 2021-06-01
    • Langue: Anglais
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    • Born into slavery on a Maryland plantation, John Thompson spent the first twenty-five years of his life in bondage before escaping to the North. His fear of recapture drove him to a soul-searching new chapter of his life. He joined the crew of the Milwood, a whaling vessel....

    Prix courant: 21,00 $

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