Anne Braden: Southern Patriot Research Bibliography

Primary Sources

Adams, Frank T. James A. Dombrowski: An American Heretic, 1897-1983. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992. Braden, Anne. The Wall Between. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1958; reprint, Knoxville: University of Tennessee, 1999. ------. editor, et al. The Southern Patriot newsletter 1957-1975. New Orleans & Louisville: SCEF Publications ------. House Un-American Activities Committee: Bulwark of Segregation. Los Angeles: National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee, 1963. ------. “The Southern Freedom Movement in Perspective.” Monthly Review 17, no. 3 (July-August 1965), Special Issue ------. Free Thomas Wansley :A Letter to White Southern Women. Louisville: SCEF Publications, 1972. ------. “A Second Open Letter to Southern White Women.” Southern Exposure 4, no. 4 (July 1977): 50-53 ------. “Lessons from a History of Struggle.” Southern Exposure 8, no. 2 (Summer 1980): 56- 61 ------. “A View from the Fringes.” Southern Exposure 9, no.2 (Spring 1981): 68-73. ------. “American Inquisition Part Two: Political Repression in the 1960s.” Southern Exposure 11, no. 5 (September-October 1983): 20-27. ------. “Those Who Were Not There: The Cold War Against the .” Fellowship, June 1989 ------. “The Cry was Unity.” Southern Exposure (Fall 1991) “Behind the Bars for the First Amendment.” Louisville: SCEF Publications. March 1960 pamphlet. Curry, Constance, et al. Deep in Our Hearts: Nine White Women in the Southern Freedom Movement. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000. Evans, Sara. Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement and the New Left. New York: Vintage, 1979. Fosl, Catherine. Southern Subversive: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South: New York, Palgrave Macmillian, 2002, reissued 2006, University Press of Kentucky ------. “Anne Braden and ‘Protective Custody,’” Murray, Gail, editor. Throwing Off the Cloak of Privilege: Southern White Women Activists in the Era of Civil Rights. Tallahassee: University Press of Florida, 2004. ------. “When Subjects Talk Back: Writing Anne Braden’s Life-in- Progress.” Oral History Review 32, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2005) ------. “Response to Commentary.” Oral History Review 33, no. 2 (Summer/ Fall 2006) Part of special section, “The Challenge and Promise of Producing Oral History-Based Biographies” ------. “The Dynamite was Fear’: Segregation, Anticommunism, and Sedition in 1954 Louisville," Making a New South: Race, Class, and Culture after the Civil War, Cimbala, Paul and Bart Shaw, ed. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006 ------. "Anne Braden, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Rigoberta Menchu: Using Personal Narrative to Build Activist Movements,” Telling Stories to Change the World, Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, and Kayhan Irani, ed (New York: Routledge, 2008). ------and Tracy E. K’Meyer. Freedom on the Border: An Oral History of the Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky. Lexington: Press, 2009 Hall, Jacqueline Dowd. “The Long Civil Rights Movement and the Political Uses of the

1 Past,” Journal of American History 91, no. 4 (March 2005): 1233-1263 Harding, Vincent. Martin Luther King: The Inconvenient Hero. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 1996 Holsaert, Faith S. et al. Hands on the Freedom Plow: Personal Accounts by Women in SNCC. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2010 Kiffmeyer, Thomas. Reformers to Radicals: the Appalachia Volunteers and the War on Poverty. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 2008 Manis, Andrew. A Fire You Can’t Put Out: The Civil Rights Life of Birmingham’s Reverend Fred Shuttlesworth. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1999. Millis, Walter. “Louisville’s Braden Case: A Test of Basic Rights.” Nation, 7 May 1955: 393-98. Mishler, Paul C. “Commentary.” Oral History Review 33, no. 2 (Summer/Fall 2006) Pearce, John Ed. Divide and Dissent: Kentucky Politics, 1930-1963. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1987. Perry, Jennings. “Sedition in Louisville: The Braden Affair.” Nation, 15 January 1955. Ransby, Barbara. and the Black Freedom Movement: A Radical Democratic Vision. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003 Young, Charles. “American Inquisition Part One : The Trial of Alan and Margaret McSurely.” Southern Exposure 11, no. 5 (September-October 1983): 15-19 Zellner, Bob with Constance Curry. The Wrong Side of Murder Creek: A White Southerner in the Freedom Movement. Montgomery: New South Books, 2008

Secondary Sources

Bartley, Numan V. The Rise of Massive Resistance: Race and Politics in the South During the 1950’s. Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1965. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988. ------. Pillar of Fire: America in the Kings Years, 1963-1965. New York: Touchstone, 1999. ------. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006 Carson, Clayborn, ed. The Autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. New York: Warner Books, 1998. ------. In Struggle: SNCC and the Black Awakening of the 1960s. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1981. Carter, Dan T. Scottsboro: A Tragedy of the American South. Baton Rough: Louisiana State University Press, 1981. ------.The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politic. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995. Crawford, Vikki, Jacqueline Rouse, and Barbara Woods, editors. Women in the Civil Rights Movement: Trailblazers and Torchbearers. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1988. Davis, Angela. Angela Davis: An Autobiography. New York: Bantam, 1974 Dennis, Peggy. Autobiography of an American Communist: A Personal View of a Political Life, 1925-75. Berkeley, Calif.: Lawrence Hall, 1975. Dudziak, Mary L. Cold War Civil Rights: Race and the Image of American Democracy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2000. Dunbar, Anthony. Against the Grain: Southern Radicals and Prophets, 1929-1959. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia, 1981. Durr, Virginia. Outside the Magic Circle: The Autobiography of Virginia Foster Durr. Edited by Hollinger Barnard. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1985. Egerton, John. Speak Now Against the Day: The Generation before the Civil Rights Movement. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Forman, James. The Making of Black Revolutionaries. Washington, D.C.: Open Hand, 1985.

2 Fried, Albert. McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. Hall, Wade. The Rest of the Dream: The Black Odyssey of Lyman Johnson. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1988. Hanisch, Carol. “Blacks, Women, and the Movement in SCEF.” In Feminist Revolution, edited by Redstockings. New York: Random House, 1975. Hewitt, Nancy, and Suzanne Lebsock, editors. Visible Women: New Essays on American Activism. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1993. Hobson, Gerald. But Now I See: The White Southern Racial Conversion Narrative. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1999. Horne, Gerald. Communist Front? The , 1946-1956. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleight Dickinson University Press, 1988. ------. Black & Red: W.E.B. Du Bois and the Afro-American Response to the Cold War, 1944-1963, Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986 Isserman, Maurice. If I Had A Hammer: The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left. New York: Basic Books, 1987. Jenkins, Phillip. The Cold War at Home. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. Kelly, Robin D. G. Hammer and Hoe: Alabama Communists during the Great Depression. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990. ------. Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination. Boston: Beacon Press, 2002 King, Martin Luther, Jr. Stride toward Freedom. New York: Harper & Row, 1958. Klibaner, Irwin. Conscience of a Troubled South: The Southern Conference Education Fund, 1946-1966. Brooklyn: Carlson, 1989. Korstad, Robert, Civil Rights Unionism: Tobacco Workers and the Struggle for Democracy in the Mid-Twentieth-Century South (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003) ------and Nelson Lichtenstein. “Opportunities Lost and Found: Labor, Radicals, and the Early Civil Rights Movement.” Journal of American History 75, no. 3 (December 1988) Krueger, Thomas. And Promises to Keep: The Southern Conference for Human Welfare, 1938–1948. Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 1967 Lipsitz, George, A Rainbow at Midnight: Labor and Culture in the 1940s. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994 Meyerowitz, Joanne, ed. Not June Cleaver: Women and Gender in the Post-War America, 1945- 1960. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. McWhorter, Diane. Carry Me Home: Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001. Morris, Aldon. The Origins of the Civil Rights Movement: Black Communities Organizing for Change. New York: Free Press, 1984. Olson, Lynn. Freedom’s Daughters: The Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement from 1830 to 1970. New York: Scribner’s, 2001. Raines, Howell. My Soul Is Rested: The Story of the Civil Rights Movement in the Deep South. New York: Penguin, 1977. Reed, Linda A. A Simple Decency and Common Sense: The Southern Conference Movement, 1938-1963. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991. Rosen, Ruth. The World Slit Open: How the Modern Women’s Movement Changed America. New York: Penguin, 2000. Salmond, John. A Southern Rebel: The Life and Times of Aubrey Willis Williams, 1890-1965. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. ------. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1988 Schrecker, Ellen. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1998

3 Singh, Nikhil Pal. Black is a Country: Race and the Unfinished Struggle for Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004 Smith, Lillian. Killers of the Dream. New York: W.W. Norton, 1961 revised edition. Stone, I. F. The Haunted Fifties. New York: Random House, 1963. Thompson, Becky. A Promise and a Way of Life: White Antiracist Activism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001. Tyson, Timothy B. Blood Done Sign My Name: A True Story. New York: Crown Publishers, 2004 ------. Radio Free Dixie: Robert F. Williams and the Roots of Black Power. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1999. West, Cornel. Race Matters. Boston: Beacon Press, 1993 Zinn, Howard. A People’s History of the United States. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.

Archival Collections of Materials

Appalshop Archives in Whitesburg, KY house video, digital photo, print and research materials from the production of Anne Braden: Southern Patriot.

Dr. Catherine Fosl’s interviews form the Anne Braden Oral History Collection at the Louis B. Nunn Center for Oral History at the University of Kentucky Library. The Oral History Collection also contains interviews with Braden.

University of Louisville Archives and Records Center houses the Anne Braden Papers 1920s-2006. This collection was formed after Braden’s death and contains materials related to or collected by Braden from early childhood until her death in 2006. These papers take the form of correspondence, booklets and flyers, manuscripts, syllabi, audio and video tapes, and photographs. Included in the personal materials are scrapbooks, yearbooks, and diaries.

The Carl and Anne Braden Papers 1928-2006 at the State Historical Society of Wisconsin is the largest holding of materials by and about the Bradens, primarily documenting their work with the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) 1954-1974, and the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), 1974-2006. The collection has large holdings of sound recordings and photographs as well.

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin’s Social Action Collection also has extensive holdings of records and documents of individuals and organizations that intersected with Anne Braden’s work and organizing experiences.

There are also collections of Carl and Anne Braden Papers in Special Collections and Archives, M.I. King Library, University of Kentucky, and Special Collections, Hoskins Library, University of Tennessee. Louisville’s Courier-Journal has an extensive photo archive containing prints of the Bradens starting in the era of the Wade Case.

The Kentucky Civil Rights Oral History Project is a project of the Kentucky Historical Society and includes interviews with Anne Braden as well as many others active in the civil rights movement in the state.

The Birmingham Public Library and the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute are important sources for photographs and film that illustrate Braden’s childhood in Alabama and the significant civil rights events taking place there.

4 Many State Archives and universities throughout the South contain some material related to the Bradens and have photographic and audio-visual material of the larger civil rights movement.

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