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1 online resource (1 audio file (19hr., 04 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
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Read by Sara Morsey. |
| 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 twentieth-century South as ripples from the Cold War divided the emerging civil rights movement. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Braden, Anne, 1924-2006.
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Women civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
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Civil rights workers -- Southern States -- Biography.
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Women, White -- Southern States -- Biography.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Civil rights movements -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century.
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Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Louisville (Ky.) -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century.
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Louisville (Ky.) -- Biography.
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Morsey, Sara, narrator
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781982407698 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1982407697 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT11522490 |
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