Facts: - death place: louisville , kentucky , usa - death date: 6 march 2006 - spouse: carl braden - awards: american civil liberties unions roger baldwin medal of liberty - birth date: 28 july 1924 - name: anne mccarty braden - movement: african-american civil rights movement and peace movement - image: anne mccarty braden.jpg - birth place: louisville , kentucky , usa Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of anne braden .
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anne mccarty braden -lrb- july 28 , 1924 -- march 6 , 2006 -rrb- was an american advocate of racial equality .born in louisville , kentucky , and raised in rigidly segregated anniston , alabama , braden grew up in a white middle-class family that accepted southern racial mores wholeheartedly .a devout episcopalian , braden was bothered by racial segregation , but never questioned it until her college years at randolph-macon woman 's college in virginia .after working on newspapers in anniston and birmingham , alabama , she returned to kentucky as a young adult to write for the louisville times .there , in 1948 , she met and married fellow newspaperman carl braden , a left-wing trade unionist .she became a supporter of the civil rights movement at a time when it was unpopular among southern whites .