Anne Braden

Anne McCarty Braden
Born
Anne Gambrell McCarty

(1924-07-28)July 28, 1924
DiedMarch 6, 2006(2006-03-06) (aged 81)
Louisville, Kentucky, U.S.
Alma materRandolph-Macon Woman's College
Occupation(s)Civil rights activist, journalist, educator
Political partyProgressive Party of 1948
Movement
SpouseCarl Braden
AwardsAmerican Civil Liberties Union's Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty
External videos
video icon "Anne Braden: Southern Patriot", California Newsreel
video icon A Riveting Biography of a Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden – Civil Rights (2003)

Anne McCarty Braden (July 28, 1924 – March 6, 2006) was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator dedicated to the cause of racial equality.[1] She and her husband bought a suburban house for an African American couple during Jim Crow. White neighbors burned crosses and bombed the house. During McCarthyism, Anne was charged with sedition. She wrote and organized for the southern civil rights movement before violations became national news. Anne was among nation's most outspoken white anti-racist activists, organizing across racial divides in environmental, women's, and anti-nuclear movements.

  1. ^ Fosl, Catherine (1999). ""There Was No Middle Ground": Anne Braden and the Southern Social Justice Movement". NWSA Journal. 11 (3): 24–4. JSTOR 4316680.