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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
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Product Description
Anne McCarty Braden, a southern white woman, broke from her segregationist and privileged past in the late 1940s to become a lifelong crusader for racial injustice. Martin Luther King praised Braden's extraordinary integrity in his famous Letter from a Birming-ham Jail, but even among civil rights supporters, she was a con-troversial figure. Branded a communist and seditionist by several southern politicians, Braden nevertheless became a role model to students who launched the 1960s sit-in movements and to successive generations of young peace and justice activists. Through this compelling oral history of Braden's life, Catherine Fosl demonstrates how racism, sexism, and anticommunism inter- sected in the twentieth-century American South.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2027954 in Books
- Published on: 2006-08
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 1.50 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 418 pages
Editorial Reviews
Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.
"[Anne Braden's] history is a proud and fascinating one...Please read this book."
About the Author
Catherine Fosl teaches Women's Studies and Humanities at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
