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Sorry forgot the bookmark http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-huac.htm This government run committee was designed to investigate potential threats to the United States from the inside. Including the relevant Cold War and communist that could be in the United States. They spent most of their time investigating left wing democrates, including Carl Braden, Anne Bradens husband and the Black Civil Rights Movement. The committee no longer exist and the website discuss the past of the group.

5 interviews with civil rights activists in the early 1980s (Anne Braden, Virginia Foster Durr, Amelia Robinson, Fred Shuttlesworth, Frederick Palmer Weber) who discuss their involvement in the Southern Conference for Human Welfare/Educational Fund. Some of the main topics include segregation, poverty, legislation, and poll taxes. (Audiotapes, transcripts, and collateral materials housed in Weatherly Hall North, Room 122. Copies are also housed at the Indiana University Archives in Herman B Wells Library E460.) Braden interview by Linda Reed is 35 pages (90 minutes) - describes the disenfranchisement of Depression Era South and need for worker, economic and civil rights for Black Americans; discusses Congress of Industrial Organizations, House Un-American Activities Committee, Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, Southern Christian Leadership Conference as well as the structure of the SCEF and the Southern Patriot.

On Page 273 of Fosl book on Anne Braden, the story of Dr. Martin Luther King jr. support for clemency for Carl Braden was being questioned. Although he did come out in support of Carl's clemency Anne was in anguish that it was taking so long.