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Oral history interview with Murray Atkins Walls and John Walls. :: African American Ora... - 0 views

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  • aplatonic 3 on 27 Feb 13
     
    Oral history interview with Murray Atkins Walls and John Walls, conducted July 27, 1977 by Dwayne Cox. Most of the interview focuses on Murray Atkins Walls, although her husband, John Walls, is also an active participant. They were both involved in civil rights activities in Louisville and so share many experiences.
Big Bird

"There Was No Middle Ground": Anne Braden and the Southern Social Justice Movement - 0 views

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Kentucky women history civil rights segregation

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  • Big Bird on 26 Oct 10
     
    This article written by Catherine Fosl, the author of "Subversive Southerner", offers another account into the life of Anne Braden. However, this journal focuses more on Anne Braden's book "The Wall Between" and what role her and her husband played in helping the Wades, a black family, move into a white neighborhood.
Wildcat Big Blue

Anne Braden - 0 views

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  • Wildcat Big Blue on 28 Oct 10
     
    "The Wall Between" is a book by Anne Braden. This should be a good read judging from the review mentioned in the above link.
Bradley Wexler

The Wall Between - 3 views

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  • it has taken a toll on her family. But I suppose somebody has to do that to get movements ... you know, to be part of a movement.
  • she grew up in a privileged upper-middle-class white family in Anniston, Alabama.
  • And the parents were completely shocked by her radical views and particularly her radical deduction in the 1950s
  • ...7 more annotations...
  • she was so committed to her sense of what was right that she stuck to her guns
  • It either leads them to realize the evil that is going on around them and to do something about it, or it just totally envelops the person.
  • She was 30, but it's almost as if she was 20
  • authority was set up to help her, not to hurt her in any way
  • "polite racism."
  • and so hounded him about the Bradens and what had been their motives for buying the house
  • "Well, not only is everybody in Louisville against her; none of her friends will associate with her anymore."
  • Bradley Wexler on 24 Sep 10
     
    This is the transcript from an interview of the Wilma and Dava Jonathan, and Cate Fosl. It gives great insight on the author and activist Anne Braden.
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