Charles Johnson Jr. has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 4 authors. The most-rated is Strength to Stand.
Tin Hollow
Summary
When a white baseball player with a taste for hot women and shady deals is found murdered in Tin Hollow, the black side of town in segregated Jefferson, Arkansas, racial tensions rise to the boiling point. With no clues and no one talking, the authorities turn to an outsider to solve the crime - a young, Howard-educated black attorney named Carl Tatum. At first, the task seems small, the stakes benign. The more Carl discovers, though, the deeper he sinks into a morass of hatred and suspicion the likes of which he never imagined. He finds himself in a hometown he no longer recognizes, a place where truth means nothing in the face of power, and the line between right and wrong, legality and crime, is blurred. Balancing logic and intuition against bigotry, corruption, and wanton violence, his continued investigation runs him afoul of a who's who of Jefferson's most powerful and dangerous men - a small-minded police chief, a gang of racist local roughnecks, and a vicious bootlegger with a mean streak. Any one of them could be the killer...and any one of them could come after him next. Will Carl be able to solve the crime and cement his future? Or will his be the next body found in the back alleys of Tin Hollow?
©2016 Oghma Creative Media (P)2017 Oghma Creative Media
Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer
Summary
In 1964, sociologist William McCord, long interested in movements for social change in the United States, began a study of Mississippi's Freedom Summer. Stanford University, where McCord taught, had been the site of recruiting efforts for student volunteers for the Freedom Summer project by such activists as Robert Moses and Allard Lowenstein. Described by his wife as "an old-fashioned liberal," McCord believed that he should both examine and participate in events in Mississippi. He accompanied student workers and black Mississippians to courthouses and Freedom Houses, and he attracted police attention as he studied the mechanisms of white supremacy and the black nonviolent campaign against racial segregation. Published in 1965 by W. W. Norton, his book, Mississippi: The Long, Hot Summer, is one of the first examinations of the events of 1964 by a scholar. It provides a compelling, detailed account of Mississippi people and places, including the thousands of student workers who found in the state both opportunities and severe challenges. McCord's work sought to communicate to a broad audience the depth of repression in Mississippi. Here was evidence of the need for federal action to address what he recognized as both national and southern failures to secure civil rights for black Americans. His field work and activism in Mississippi offered a perspective that few other academics or other white Americans had shared. Historian Françoise N. Hamlin provides a substantial introduction that sets McCord's work within the context of other narratives of Freedom Summer and explores McCord's broader career that combined distinguished scholarship with social activism. The book is published by University Press of Mississippi. The audiobook will be published by University Press Audiobooks.
©1965 William McCord (P)2018 Redwood Audiobooks
Strength to Stand
Summary
You are equipped with the Strength to Stand because of the anointing of the Holy Spirit. Whether you make yourself available to that strength is the question. The strength and power of the Holy Spirit always moves freely through those who have no other desire than to share the word of the Lord to hungry people. And make no mistake about it, God has much to say to his people. God has much he wants to communicate to the world around us. There is much to learn from the Bishop T.D. Jakes' words, but also his method, his passion, and his love of the Lord Jesus. Strength to Stand equips you to meet the devil's end-time onslaught to thwart the plan of God. In Strength to Stand, Bishop Jakes covers topics including: Who Is Your God? In Your Darkest Hour Asking Why? God's School of the Spirit The Cold Kiss of a Calloused Heart Healing for Past Hurts The Only Safe Place Victorious Strength When economic troubles, family struggles, political upheavals, and natural disasters take center stage, you can rest assured with an inner peace that passes all understanding, that you have the power to victoriously live through it all. God's master plan is to carry you to new and exciting heights of splendor, hope, and love.
©2011 TD Jakes (P)2016 Destiny Image