Braden, Anne, 1924-2006

Authoritative Name:
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Biography:
Born Anne Gambrell McCarty on July 28, 1924 in Louisville, Kentucky and died there on March 6, 2006 at the age of eighty-one. A prominent civil rights activist, she was indicted on charges of sedition in 1954 after she and her husband Carl helped buy a house for an African American family in an all-white suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. Her memoir of the case, The Wall Between, was published in 1958. She founded Progress in Education and the Kentucky branch of the Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression to ease the stress of school desegregation in the 1970s.
Associated Subjects:
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006--Childhood and youth
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006--Interviews
Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

56 items in 6 collections (expand all)

Interview with Andrew Wade, November 8, 1989

Creator:
Wade, Andrew, IV
Date of Original:
1989-11-08
Collection:
Anne Braden Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:
University of Kentucky

Interview with Anne Braden, December 12, 1997

Creator:
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Date of Original:
1997-12-12
Collection:
Anne Braden Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:
University of Kentucky

Interview with Anne Braden, June 11, 1996

Creator:
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Date of Original:
1996-06-11
Collection:
Anne Braden Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:
University of Kentucky

Interview with Anne Braden, March 10, 1989

Creator:
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Date of Original:
1989-03-10
Collection:
Anne Braden Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:
University of Kentucky

Interview with Anne Braden, March 7, 1989

Creator:
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Date of Original:
1989-03-07
Collection:
Anne Braden Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:
University of Kentucky

Interview with Anne Braden, March 8 and 9, 1989

Creator:
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Date of Original:
1989-03-08/1989-03-09
Collection:
Anne Braden Oral History Project
Contributing Institution:
University of Kentucky
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Letter: Los Angeles, California, to Carl and Anne Braden, Louisville, Kentucky, 1959 July 21

Creator:
Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006
Date of Original:
1959-07-21
Collection:
Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Letter: Los Angeles, California, to James Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963 August 21

Creator:
Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006
Date of Original:
1963-08-21
Collection:
Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Letter: Los Angeles, California, to James Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963 June 4

Creator:
Wilkinson, Frank, 1914-2006
Date of Original:
1963-06-04
Collection:
Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Letter: Louisville, Kentucky, to James Dombrowski and Henri, 1962 December 11

Creator:
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975
Date of Original:
1962-12-11
Collection:
Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Letter: Monteagle, Tennessee, to James Dombrowski, 1961 June 11

Creator:
Highlander Folk School (Monteagle, Tenn.)
Date of Original:
1961-06-11
Collection:
Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History

Letter: Montgomery, Alabama, to G. Bromley Oxnam, Washington, D.C., 1960 January 21

Creator:
Williams, Aubrey Willis, 1890-1965
Date of Original:
1960-01-21
Collection:
Sovereignty Commission Online
Contributing Institution:
Mississippi. Department of Archives and History
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Civil rights meeting with Thurgood Marshall

Date of Original:
1950/1959
Collection:
Wisconsin Historical Images
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Bradens

Date of Original:
1961-04-29
Collection:
Wisconsin Historical Images
Contributing Institution:
Wisconsin Historical Society
Educator Resources:

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Veterans of Hope Project

Date of Original:
1990/9999
Collection:
Veterans of Hope Project
Contributing Institution:
Veterans of Hope Project