Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South - Hardcover

Fosl, Catherine

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312294875 ISBN 13: 9780312294878

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002

Synopsis

The first biography of the legendary southern civil rights crusader introduces readers to the contributions of this extraordinary woman, and the witch hunt that targeted her in the 1950s.

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Book Description:

Anne McCarty Braden is a southern white woman who made a dramatic break with her native, segregationist culture in the years just following World War II to commit her life to the causes of racial and social justice. One of the few white people--particularly from the South--to join the southern black freedom movement in its nascent years in the 1950s, Braden became a role model and inspiration for the thousands of young white people that joined the mass movement a decade later. Braden's life has intersected on some level with most of the great social movements of her lifetime, and represents a central link that connects the southern protest movements of the 1930s and 1940s to the mass civil rights movement of the 1960s. Fosl not only shares the extraordinary life of Braden with her readers, but also teaches them about the struggles that white southern activists had to face in the segregated, Cold War South.

From the Publisher:

Winner of the 2003 Oral History Association Book Award

Winner of the 2003 Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights Outstanding Book Award

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0312294875
• ISBN 13: 9780312294878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320