Subversive Southerner

"Subversive Southerner" chronicles the life of Anne McCarty Braden, a key white ally in the Civil Rights Movement who renounced her segregationist background. Despite facing charges of sedition in 1954, her impactful activism earned recognition from Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr. in 1963. Spanning nearly sixty years, Braden's journey highlights the complexities of racism, sexism, and anticommunism in the 20th-century South, offering both a compelling biography and a rich social history of the era.