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University Press of Kentucky

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

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Title: Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
Author: Catherine Fosl
ISBN: 9780813191720
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Condition: Used: Very Good


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Publisher Description:
Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies. In 1954 she was charged with sedition by McCarthy-style politicians who played on fears of communism to preserve southern segregation. Though Braden remained controversial-even within the civil rights movement-in 1963 she became one of only five white southerners whose contributions to the movement were commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his