Anne Braden

Southern Exposure Contributor

Anne Braden is a long-time activist and frequent contributor to Southern Exposure in Louisville, Kentucky. She was active in the anti-Klan movement before and after Greensboro as a member of the Southern Organizing Committee. Her 1958 book, The Wall Between — the runner-up for the National Book Award — was re-issued by the University of Tennessee Press this fall. (1999)

Anne Braden is a white activist who has been involved in Southern movements for social justice for more than four decades. She is currently co-chair of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), which she helped found in 1975. (1991)

Anne Braden, who writes frequently for Southern Exposure, is a long-time Southern social justice advocate who recently turned 60 herself. She says gathering information for this article was an educational experience for her, as she charts her own course for the next 20 or 30 years. Information on Lucille Thornburgh was gathered by Knoxville journalist Jim DuPlessis, who has extensively interviewed her. (1985)

Anne Braden is a journalist who has been active for more than three decades in Southern movements for social justice. She is currently co-chairperson of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice and a vice-chairperson of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression. She worked on the staff of SCEF from 1957 to 1973, and edited its publication, the Southern Patriot. (1983)

Anne Braden is a journalist who has been active for more than three decades in Southern movements for social justice. She is currently co-chairperson of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice and a vice-chairperson of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, and was one of the organizers of the February 2 anti-Klan demonstration in Greensboro, North Carolina. A longer version of this article, based on a speech she made at a national anti-Klan conference in Atlanta in December, 1979, appears in Freedomways magazine, Volume 20, No. 1. (1980)

Anne Braden has worked for 31 years in Southern civil rights, anti-war, civil liberties and labor movement campaigns, and is currently co-chair of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC). (1979)

Anne Braden, a veteran fighter for civil rights and liberties, is co-chairperson of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic Justice (SOC). (1978)

Anne Braden is a journalist who for the past 30 years has been active in Southern civil-rights, civil-liberties, anti-war, and labor movements. In the late 1940s, she left daily newspaper work to become a writer and organizer with her late husband, Carl Braden, who died in 1975. in 1954, the Bradens were charged with sedition by the state of Kentucky after they bought and resold a house in a white neighborhood to a black couple. Anne was never tried, but Cart served almost a year of a 15-year sentence before being released on bond. The conviction was finally reversed after the Bradens organized a two-year nation-wide campaign that was part of the resistance movement against the repression of the '50s. This case is the basis of a book by Anne on race relations, The Wall Between, published in 1958. From 1957 to 1973, the Bradens worked for the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), traveling the South as field organizers and later as executive directors of the organization. Anne also edited SCEF's publication, The Southern Patriot. Throughout this period, they helped black and white Southerners struggle together in common cause. Anne now serves as co-chairperson of the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic & Social Justice (SOC), a regional organization working with grass-roots groups, and is vice-chairperson of the National Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression. (1977)

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