Subversive southerner : Anne Braden and the struggle for racial justice in the Cold War South /

Subversive southerner : Anne Braden and the struggle for racial justice in the Cold War South / by Catherine Fosl.

"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...

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Main Author: Fosl, Catherine (Author)
Other Authors: Davis, Angela Y. 1944- (writer of foreword.)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, N.Y. ; Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England : Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Braden, Anne, > 1924-2006.
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 > History > 20th century.
Louisville (Ky.) > Race relations > History > 20th century.
Louisville (Ky.) > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • The Power of Place
  • A White Southern Childhood
  • Intellectual Awakening
  • Alabama Newspaperwoman
  • Political Awakening
  • Marriage and Movement
  • The Wade Case : No Turning Back
  • Fighting Back : The 1950s Resistance Movement
  • A Voice Crying in the Wilderness : Early SCEF Years
  • The Mass Civil Rights Movement : Beginning of a New Day
  • Opening Up the Southern Police State
  • End of an Era
  • The Next Three Decades: The Struggle Continues.

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