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Anne Braden

Released
Date of birth:28. 07. 1924
Date of death:06. 03. 2006
Age:81 Deceased
Gender:Female
Race:White
Era:1950s
State:Kentucky
Support
Civil Rights Civil Liberties
Anne Braden

Biography

Anne Braden was a white civil-rights activist and journalist indicted for sedition in Louisville, Kentucky alongside her husband Carl after the couple helped a Black family, the Wades, move into a white neighborhood. Her trial was postponed pending the appeals in her husband's case and the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling on state sedition laws; she went on to a long career as a Southern civil-rights organizer.

Case

Charges: Sedition (Kentucky state sedition law)
Sentence: Free on bond awaiting trial Charges as recorded: Sedition (Kentucky state sedition law) — for helping a Black family buy a home in a white neighborhood
Convicted: Indicted 1954; trial postponed to 1956