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Anne Braden

1924 - 2006

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Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (1924-2006) is a first person documentary about the life of Anne McCarty Braden. Braden rejected her segregationist, privileged past to become one of the civil rights movement’s staunchest white allies. In the 1950s, Anne Braden was indicted on charges of sedition in a famous case after she helped buy a house for a Black family (the Wades) in an all-white suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. An advocate of racial and economic equality for more than half a century, Ms. Braden was one of the white Southerners singled out for praise by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail” in 1963. She and her husband Carl Braden worked on Henry Wallace’s campaign for the presidency and on the staff of the Southern Conference Educational Fund. Anne Braden edited its newspaper, The Southern Patriot.

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