“Anne Braden was one of the courageous few who crossed the color line to fight for racial justice. Her history is a proud and fascinating one…Please read this book.” Jesse L. Jackson, American civil-rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician
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 McCarthyist 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 Reverend 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 US 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.
Praise
“Anne Braden was one of the courageous few who crossed the color line to fight for racial justice. Her history is a proud and fascinating one…Please read this book.” Jesse L. Jackson, American civil-rights activist, Baptist minister, and politician
“Laying out the inescapable interconnection of civil rights and civil liberties is Fosl’s most impressive accomplishment.” New York Times Book Review
“An excellent and inspiring read.” Progressive
“An achievement that deftly integrates biography with both regional and national history.” Southern Historian
“A compelling picture of a person committed to the cause of racial justice.” Nashville Tennessean
Details
| Language | English |
|---|---|
| Release Day | Jan 25, 2016 |
| Release Date | January 26, 2016 |
| Release Date Machine | 1453766400 |
| Imprint | Sara Morsey |
| Provider | Sara Morsey |
| Categories | Biographies & Memoirs, History, Women, Americas, Politics & Activism, Historical, Nonfiction - Adult, Nonfiction - All |
Author Bio
Catherine Fosl is an assistant professor of women’s and gender studies and the founding director of the Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research at the University of Louisville. She is the author of several works, including Subversive Southerner, Freedom on the Border, and Women for All Seasons.
Narrator Bio
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 McCarthyist 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 Reverend 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 US 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.
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