Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South / Edition 1

by Catherine Fosl

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813191720
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	08/25/2006
Series:	Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	464
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.25(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Catherine Fosl is an assistant professor of Women's and Gender Studies and director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville. She is the author of Women for All Seasons: The Story of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.

What People are Saying About This

Jesse Jackson

[Anne Braden's] history is a proud and fascinating one...Please read this book. (Reverend Jesse L. Jackson, Sr.)

Editorial Reviews

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

Southern Historian

David L. Hudson Jr., Nashville Tennessean

and her Anne Braden's life as a social activist spans more than half a century

Library Journal

Fosl...gives Braden the recognition she rightly de Now

Her history is a proud and fascinating one.... Please read this book.

Sr. Reverend Jesse Jackson

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

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

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

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

From the Publisher

Narrator Sara Morsey's conversational style is ideal for this biography of Civil Rights activist Anne McCarty Braden. Braden was born to a privileged white Southern family but changed after observing the "Southern police state" of her time when she became a journalist. Braden is a fascinating figure who observed that Southern newspapers ignored black issues, including murder, and used the Cold War against the Civil Rights movement. Morsey uses a Southern accent only for quotes from such such figures as Civil Rights leader Julian Bond and colorful Alabama governor and activist Big Jim Folsom. Listeners will be gratified by this unique overview of Civil Rights history featuring a woman who is commended in Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "Letter from Birmingham Jail.” A glimpse of Braden's family life adds poignancy to Fosi's well-researched biography. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine

JUNE 2016 - AudioFile