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Narrated by: Donald Bogle, Matthew J. Turner

Unabridged — 26 hours, 44 minutes

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Available once again, the definitive biography of the pioneering Black performer-the first nominated for a Best Actress Academy Award-who broke new ground in Hollywood and helped transform American society in the years before Civil Rights movement-a remarkable woman of her time who also transcended it.

“An ambitious, rigorously researched account of the long-ignored film star and chanteuse. . . . Bogle has fashioned a resonant history of a bygone era in Hollywood and passionately documented ...