Anne Braden Speaks: Selected Writings and Speeches, 1947-1999

by Anne Braden

Book Overview

Anne Braden was raised to be a southern belle. Instead she became a revolutionary who helped to shape the self-understanding of the entire civil rights movement. From her earliest days as a trade unionist in the radical wing of the Congress of Industrial Organizations, she had been one of a small handful of white Southerners willing to take a stand against Jim Crow in the 1950s. As a journalist throughout the 1960s, she offered a penetrating, historically-grounded...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1583679707
• ISBN13: 9781583679708
• Release Date: August 2022
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 5.4" x 8.2"