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Subversive Southerner
Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
by Catherine Fosl
ISBN: 0312294875
ISBN-13: 9780312294878
Format: Hardcover
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"Laying out the inescapable interconnection of civil rights and civil liberties is Fosl's most impressive accomplishment. Though more glamorous accounts of the Red Scare tend to focus on Hollywood and the blacklist, it was the Southern variety of anti-Communism that exposed the systemically toxic dangers of curtailing the First Amendment's freedom of speech and of association....However, the main failing of SUBVERSIVE SOUTHERNER-unfortunately, it is a central one-is that Fosl...declines to discuss the substance of the Bradens' relationship with the Communist Party....The fullness of Anne Braden's humanity-complex, difficult, tormented and finally inspiring-does comes through. Whenever her own voice cuts into Fosl's diligent scholarship, we witness her drive and passion and discernment." -- Diane McWhorter
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: St Martins Pr
Published date: 2002
Edition: 1th edition
Size: 6.5 x 9.5 inches
Weight: 1.75 pounds
Pages: 320
Publisher's Notes
The first biography of the legendary southern civil rights crusader introduces readers to the contributions of this extraordinary woman, and the witch hunt that targeted her in the 1950s.
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SUBVERSIVE SOUTHERNER : ANNE BRADEN
Fosl Catherine
Palgrave MacMillan. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket; A little jacket wear. 2002. First Edition. Hardcover. 8vo . ( more information) Offered by Hollingsworth's Books (United States)
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Ann Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
Fosl, Catherine, Foreword by Angela Davis
New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan. Near Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket. 2002. Hardcover. 0312294875 . Tiny wrinkle and closed tear at bottom of dust jacket's spine; otherwise book is like new. ; Dust jacket in clear plastic protector, which is very lightly rubbed.. ; B & W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 418 pages . ( more information) Offered by Every Other Book (United States)
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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South (Qty: 5)
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Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South
Catherine Fost
New York, New York: Palgrave McMillian, 2002. Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. Anne McCarty Braden is a southern white woman who in the 1940s broke from her segregationist and privleged past and became a lifelong crusader who sought to awaken the consciences of white southerners to the reality of racial injustice. Martin Luther King praised Braden's extraordinary integrity in his famous"Letters from a Birmingham Jail," but even among civil rights supportors, she was as much a controversial figure as an ally. Branded a communist and seditionist by southern politicians who used McCarthyism to prop up segregation as it crumbled, Braden nevertheless became a role model to students who launched the 1960s sit-ins, and to successive generations of peace and justice activists. Fost's book dramatically--as has not been done before--how the Cold War divided and limited the southern civil rights movement. Book Condition is Fine; gray cloth over boards with gold lettering on spine. 418pp. First Edition, first printing. B&W photos, notes, bibliography, index. Book is clean with no markings, firm binding, white pages. Dust Jacket Condition is Fine; glossy finish jacket with good color. No nicks or tears, no fading. Covered with a removable mylar dust jacket.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Civil Rights Movement/Biograph. ( more information) Offered by Books About The South (United States)
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Subversive Southerner (Qty: 3)
Fosl Catherine
PALGRAVE MACMILLAN, 3/6/. Brand new. <br>Author: FOSL, CATHERINE (UNIVERSITY OF LOUISVILLE, USA)<br>Publisher: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN<br>Year Of Publication: 2003<br>Pages: 272<br>Publication Country: UK<br>Dimensions: 234 x 156<br>Format: hardback<br>Anne McCarty Braden, a southern white woman, committed her life to the causes of racial and social injustice. This work shares the extraordinary life of Braden with its readers, and also teaches them about the struggles that white southern activists had t ( more information) Offered by Thunder Books (United States)
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