Subversive southerner - Catherine Fosl

Anne McCarty Braden (1924-2006) rejected her segregationist, privileged Alabama past to become one of the civil rights movement's staunchest white allies and one of only five white southerners commended by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 ""Letter from Birmingham Jail."" Arousing the conscience of white southerners to racial injustice, Braden was charged as a seditionist by politicians who used McCarthyism to buttress segregation as it came under legal attack in the 1950s. Although Braden remained controversial even within the movement, her activism persisted for nearly six decades, placing hers among the most enduring white voices against racism in modern U.S. history. This riveting, oral history-based biography also offers a social history of how racism, sexism, and anticommunism overlapped in the twentieth-century South as ripples from the Cold War divided the southern civil rights movement.