Interview with Anne Braden, June 11, 1996
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 her childhood in Anniston during the 1930s, family trips to Eminence, Kentucky, and the lives of her aristocratic female relatives. Braden also comments on her individual perceptions of reality in terms of time and space as well as her thoughts on the afterlife and human sexuality. She talks about college life at Stratford and Randolph-Macon during World War II, her early love life and friendships, as well as her early career as a southern newspaperwoman. Braden also speaks about her later career at The Louisville Times in the 1950s and her marriage to, and subsequent life of activism and child-rearing with fellow Times journalist Carl Braden.Interview Accession
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African Americans--Civil rights African Americans--Civil rights--Kentucky Braden, Carl, 1914-1975 Civil rights movements--United States Civil rights workers Civil rights--Kentucky College students Korean War, 1950-1953 Louisville times Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948) Randolph-Macon College Rationing--United States Stratford College (Danville, Va.)Interview Rights
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Braden, Anne Interview by Catherine Fosl. 11 Jun. 1996. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Braden, A. (1996, June 11). 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. June 11, 1996, Anne Braden Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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