Interview with Anne Braden, November 8, 1989
Project: Anne Braden Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Anne Braden was a white southern anti-racist activist, organizer and journalist from Louisville, Kentucky. In this interview, Braden discusses the Gandhi Corps, an interracial group of local teens who held demonstrations against segregation. She speaks about the early 1950s and she and Carl Braden's political life shifting more to the left as they began to work with other organizations besides unions and support the Progressive Party. Braden also talks about the factors that led her to protest against the Korean War.Interview Accession
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African Americans--Civil rights African Americans--Civil rights--Kentucky Braden, Anne, 1924-2006 Braden, Anne, 1924-2006--Interviews Braden, Carl, 1914-1975 Civil rights movements--United States Civil rights workers Civil rights--Kentucky Korean War, 1950-1953 Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) Women civil rights workers--InterviewsInterview Rights
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Braden, Anne Interview by Catherine Fosl. 08 Nov. 1989. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Braden, A. (1989, November 08). Interview by C. Fosl. Anne Braden Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Braden, Anne, interview by Catherine Fosl. November 08, 1989, Anne Braden Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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