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Anne Braden, a longtime social activist who was indicted on charges of sedition after helping a black couple integrate a 1950s white neighborhood in Louisville, Ky., died Monday.
Anne Braden, a social activist who was indicted on charges of sedition after helping a black couple integrate a white neighborhood in Louisville in the 1950s, died Monday. She was 81.
Anne Braden was a civil rights activist who was accused of being a communist and seditionist by southern politicians. She later became a role model to protesters launching sit-ins and successful ...
Anne Braden, a civil rights activist best known for her attempt at dismantling segregation by purchasing a home for a black family in an all-white Kentucky neighborhood in the 1950s, died Monday ...
Not very many white people in U.S. history have worked for racial justice as tirelessly, as deeply, or as long as did Louisville journalist Anne Braden, who died here 10 years ago on March 6, 2006.
“Anne Braden: Southern Patriot” is a documentary film exploring the extraordinary life and legacy of this American civil rights leader. After she was charged with sedition for attempting to ...
Anne Braden’s memoir of the case, “The Wall Between” was published in 1958, becoming one of the few accounts of its era to probe the psychology of white southern racism from within.
Anne Braden (1924-2006) was a freedom fighter in the US South. She talked and walked left. Ben Wilkins’ book “Anne Braden Speaks” (Monthly Review Press 2022) is a collection of her path ...
Almost 70 years challenging Louisville's discriminatory housing laws, late activists Anne and Carl Braden along with Andrew and Charlotte Wade were honored Saturday.
In other news, civil rights advocate Anne Braden has died at the age of 81. Braden was one of the founding members of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice. She was the ...
On the C-SPAN Networks: Anne Braden is a Co-Bureau Chief for the Southern Organizing Cmte. Econ. Justice with four videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 1991 Forum.