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  • Subversive Southerner

  • Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
  • Written by: Catherine Fosl
  • Narrated by: Sara Morsey
  • Length: 19 hrs and 4 mins

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Subversive Southerner

Written by: Catherine Fosl
Narrated by: Sara Morsey
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Publisher's Summary

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 20th-century South as ripples from the Cold War divided the emerging Civil Rights Movement.

©2006 University Press of Kentucky (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.

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