Subversive southerner
Subtitle: Anne Braden and the struggle for racial justice in the Cold War South
By: by Catherine Fosl.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 418
Subjects: Braden, Anne, 1924-; Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography; Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography; Women, White -- Southern States -- Biography; African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century; Southern States -- Race relations; Louisville (Ky.) -- Race relations; Louisville (Ky.) -- Biography
Genres: Biography.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [393]-405) and index.