Subversive Southerner

Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

Bibliographic Data

ID10237802
AuthorsGail Williams O'Brien, Catherine Fosl
Year2004
Volume70
Issue2
Pages477
Publication date2004-05-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Southern History (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0022-4642 • E-ISSN: 2325-6893
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/27648461
OpenAlexW1605658130
LanguageEN
Citations received11

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

Cold war · Economic Justice · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Political and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Race, History, and American Society

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