Home of journalist and civil rights organizer Anne Braden, who in 1954 helped a Black family buy a home in white Shively, sparking a sedition trial that defined Cold War-era civil rights struggle.
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American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator (1924–2006)
Anne McCarty Braden was an American civil rights activist, journalist, and educator dedicated to the cause of racial equality. She and her husband bought a suburban house for an African American couple during Jim Crow. White neighbors burned crosses and bombed the house. During McCarthyism, Anne was charged with sedition. She wrote and organized for the southern civil rights movement before violations became national news. Anne was among nation's most outspoken white anti-racist activists, organizing across racial divides in environmental, women's, and anti-nuclear movements.
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