| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. By Catherine Fosl. (New York: Pal-grave, 2002. xxx, 418 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-312-29487-5.)
The historiography on the civil rights movement grows increasingly thick these days, and one area of recent development is on the role of white women in the movement. We have seen several autobiographical accounts such as the collection by Constance Curry et al., Deep in Our Hearts (2000), and the memoir by Virginia Durr (1985). There have also been a handful of biographies such as Mary Stanton's book on Viola Liuzzo (1998) and a work in progress on Katherine DuPre Lumpkin. To this list is now added Catherine Fosl's treatment of Anne Braden, a lifelong activist and radical from Kentucky. Along with her husband, Carl, Braden was relentlessly harassed and red-baited for years for working on behalf of civil rights and civil liberties in the South.	1
The book sparkles at first, and the opening chapters are among the best. The development of Braden's family background, childhood history, education, and early career is very well done. Fosl successfully explains the making of a southern white radical, despite the absence of any single, radicalizing "click" event in Braden's life. But the book slows once the story becomes that of Braden's full-time activism. It occasionally feels like trudging through a long list of overlapping organizations, with lots of famous historical figures making cameo appearances.	. . .

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