The Organizing Tradition of Anne and Carl Braden

This digital story focuses on the profound influence on several generations of Anne Braden and her husband Carl as committed white allies to the cause of African American freedom since the 1950s. The project grew out of the University of Louisville’s Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, namesake to longtime Louisville-based anti-racist journalist Anne Braden. A coalition of historians, students, and workers connected to the Institute partnered with a community group called Louisville Showing Up for Racial Justice, or LSURJ, to create digital stories that examine the ways that the 1966 call to “organize your own” infused organizing for racial equity in and around Louisville. These stories juxtapose oral history audio snippets with relevant historic images and artifacts.
The creative and production team included graduate student Wes Cunningham (lead oral historian and narrator), community activist Carla Wallace of LSURJ, historian Lara Kelland, technology assistants Jamie Beard and Nia Holt, and Braden biographer and Institute director Cate Fosl.

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I only talked to anne once when we were trying to raise money for jo-etha collier --she could not get around that I was catholic worker "catholic" did not compute. Carl does not get the respect he deserves