Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century) - Softcover

Fosl, Catherine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813191726 ISBN 13: 9780813191720

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky, 2006

Synopsis

Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged Alabama past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of only five white southerners commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 ""Letter from Birmingham Jail."" Arousing the conscience of white southerners to racial injustice, Braden was charged as a seditionist by politicians who used McCarthyism to buttress segregation as it came under legal attack in the 1950s. Although Braden remained controversial even within the movement, her activism persisted for nearly six decades, placing hers among the most enduring white voices against racism in modern U.S. history. This riveting, oral history-based biography also offers a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism overlapped in the twentieth-century South as ripples from the Cold War divided the southern civil rights movement.

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Review:

"David L. Hudson Jr., Nashville Tennessean" -- Anne Braden's life as a social activist spans more than half a century, and her

"Library Journal" -- Now, Fosl...gives Braden the recognition she rightly deserves.

"Her history is a proud and fascinating one.... Please read this book." -- Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.

""An achievement that deftly integrates biography with both regional and national history."" -- Southern Historian

About the Author:

Catherine Fosl teaches women's and gender studies and communication at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Women for All Seasons.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0813191726
• ISBN 13: 9780813191720
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 464