“In every age, no matter how cruel the oppression carried on by those in power, there have been those who struggled for a different world. I believe this is the genius of humankind, the thing that makes us half divine: the fact that some human beings can envision a world that has never existed.” ~ Anne Braden (1924-2006), Louisville racial justice activist Anne Braden was a local white advocate in the Civil Rights movement in the 1950s and ‘60s. She and her husband Carl are most famous for purchasing a house in the then exclusively white neighborhood of Shively for a Black couple. Both Bradens were arrested as “Communists’ for their act and the house was dynamited after irate neighbors shot it up and burned a cross in the front yard. Anne was not deterred and continued the fight for the remaining fifty years of her life, founding a newspaper and several antiracist organizations. Anne provides an exce...
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