Subversive Southerner

Description

"Anne McCarty Braden is a southern white woman who in the 1940s broke from her segregationist and privileged past and became a lifelong crusader who sought to awaken the consciences of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice. Martin Luther King praised Braden's extraordinary integrity in his famous "Letter from a Birmingham Jail," but even among civil rights supporters, she was as much a controversial figure as an ally. Branded a communist and seditionist by southern politicians who used McCarthyism to prop up segregation as it crumbled, Braden nevertheless became a role model to students who launched the 1960s sit-ins, and to successive generations of peace and justice activists. In this oral history-based biography, Catherine Fosl demonstrates how racism, sexism, and anticommunism intersected in the twentieth-century South. Braden's story connects southern reform drives of the 1930s and 1940s to the mass civil rights movement of the 1960s and to the continuation of racial justice campaigns today. Fosl's book also reveals dramatically - as has not been done before - how the Cold War divided and limited the southern civil rights movement."--BOOK JACKET.

First Sentence

ANNE MCCARTY WAS BORN INTO THAT "Louisville where white folks lived" on July 28, 1924, at St. Anthony's Hospital.

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Other Editions

• Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden And the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century)PaperbackUniversity Press of Kentucky2006-08-01
• Subversive southernerPalgrave Macmillan2002-01-01
• Subversive sourthernerPalgrave Macmillan2002-01-01
• Subversive SouthernerPaperbackBrand: Palgrave MacMillan2004-05-26
• Subversive SouthernerPalgrave Macmillan2008-01-01
• Subversive SouthernerAudio CDSara Morsey2016-01-26