Anne McCarty Braden

(1924–2006)
A journalist and community organizer from Louisville, Kentucky, who defied racist real estate practices and the House Un-American Activities Committee and organized White Southerners to support the civil rights movement. She is best known for helping a Black couple buy a house in an all-White neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky in 1954. She and her husband were put on trial for sedition, banned from jobs, threatened, and reviled by their fellow White Southerners for what they did. She wrote a book about her sedition trial, The Wall Between, which was nominated for the National Book Award. She worked closely with Rosa Parks (in photo below) and Ella Baker, and she is mentioned in Dr. King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail