From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Braden, Anne McCarty and Carl

Anne (1924-2006) and Carl (1914-1975) Braden were white activists with civil rights and labor groups in Louisville. One of their many efforts occurred in 1954 when they assisted in the purchase of a house in Louisville on behalf of the Wade family; the Wades were African Americans, and the house was in a white neighborhood. The house was bombed, and the authorities, rather than arresting the responsible parties, charged the Bradens and five others with sedition (attempting to overthrow the state of Kentucky).

Anne Braden was born in Louisville and reared in Alabama. She was a reporter who left Alabama for a job with the Louisville Times newspaper.

For more see Subversive Southerner and Once Comes the Moment to Decide (thesis), both by C. Fosl; Anne & Carl Braden at the SNCC Digital Gateway; and The Wall Between, by A. Braden. View Ann Braden's interview in "Living the Story: The Rest of the Story," a Civil Rights in Kentucky Oral History Project.

Subject

Activists, Civil Rights

Authors

Education and Educators

Journalists, Newspapers, Magazines, Book Publishers, Music Publishers

Relation

Read about all the interviews in the Anne Braden Oral History Project available at the University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History; item records in the SPOKE Database and through an audio CD.