| Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South Contributor(s): Fosl, Catherine (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813191726 ISBN-13: 9780813191720 Publisher: University Press of Kentucky OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2006 Annotation: Anne McCarty Braden (1924?2006) was a courageous southern white woman who in the late 1940s rejected her segregationist and privileged past to become a lifelong crusader against racial discrimination. Arousing the conscience of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice, Braden was branded a communist and seditionist by southern politicians who used McCarthyism to buttress legal and institutional segregation as it came under fire in deferral courts. She became, nevertheless, one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of five southern whites commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 ?Letter from Birmingham Jail.? Although Braden remained a controversial figure even in the movement, her commitment superseded her radical reputation, and she became a mentor and advisor to students who launched the 1960s sit-ins and to successive generations of peace and justice activists. In this riveting, oral history-based biography, Catherine Fosl also offers a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism overlapped in the twentieth-century south and how ripples from the Cold War on the homefront divided and limited the southern civil rights movement. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Historical - Biography & Autobiography | Political - Biography & Autobiography | Women |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2006013888 |
| Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 6.3" W x 9.24" (1.50 lbs) 464 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - South - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
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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 famed "Letter from Birmingham Jail." Braden's activism ultimately spanned nearly six decades, making her one of the most enduring white voices against racism in modern U.S. history. Subversive Southerner is more than a riveting biography of an extraordinary southern white woman; it is also a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism intertwined in the twentieth-century South as ripples from the Cold War divided the emerging civil rights movement. |