- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Anne Braden, December 12, 1997
- Creator:
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
- Contributor to Resource:
- Fosl, Catherine
- Date of Original:
- 1997-12-12
- Subject:
- Women civil rights workers--Interviews
Civil rights movements--United States
African Americans--Civil rights
Anniston Star (Anniston, Ala.)
Racism
Friendship
Educational change
Dualism
Historical materialism
College students
World War, 1939-1945--Alabama--Anniston
African Americans--Education
Randolph-Macon College
Stratford College (Danville, Va.)
United Service Organizations (U.S.)
Women college students--Virginia
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities
Peace movements--United States
Picketing--New York (State)--New York
Lesbians--United States
Education, Rural--Alabama
Race relations
Southern States--Race relations
Alabama--Race relations
Anniston (Ala.)--Race relations
Segregation in education--Alabama--Anniston
Poll tax--Alabama
Reporters and reporting--Alabama
Newspapers--Alabama--Anniston
Newspapers--Alabama--Birmingham
Drinking of alcoholic beverages--Alabama
Traffic accidents--Alabama
Dance
Civil rights workers--Alabama
African American civil rights workers--Alabama
Women civil rights workers--Alabama
Clergy--Alabama - People:
- Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006--Childhood and youth
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006--Interviews
Arnall, Ellis Gibbs, 1907-1992
McCarty, Anita
McCarty, Gambrell
Fitzgerald, Harriet, 1904-1984
Beech, Gould
Folsom, James Elisha
Silver, Dorothy B. (Dorothy Berea), 1925-2008
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
Shuttlesworth, Fred L., 1922-2011
Vivian, C. T. - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Calhoun County, Anniston, 33.65983, -85.83163
United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729
United States, Rhode Island, Newport County, 41.4998, -71.281
United States, Rhode Island, Newport County, Little Compton, 41.5101, -71.17116
United States, Virginia, City of Danville, 36.58597, -79.39502
United States, Virginia, Hanover County, 37.76015, -77.49087
United States, Virginia, Hanover County, Ashland, 37.75903, -77.47998 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Description:
- Interview with Anne Braden, December 12, 1997 conducted by Catherine Fosl.
Anne Braden was a white southern anti-racist activist, organizer and journalist from Louisville, Kentucky. In this interview Anne Braden discusses her perceptions of her mother, father, and other Annistonians. She talks about the social climate of Anniston during and after World War II and the ways in which it impacted her and her family. Braden also discusses her early journalism career at The Anniston Star, the stories she covered there, her intellectual awakening to racism, and her friendships with fellow journalists. She speaks of college days at Randolph-Macon and Stratford, the friendships she established there, and how they evolved in her post-college life. She particularly speaks about her life-long friendship with Harriet Fitzgerald and Harriet's life as a lesbian and artist. Other topics include Braden's thoughts on dualism, historical materialism, educational reform, and the establishment of black schools in segregationist Anniston, Alabama. - Metadata URL:
- https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt71jw86hr3t
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.
- Extent:
- 1 interview : [01:34:26]
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
- Rights: