A Terrible Loss

Anne Braden, a civil rights activist, humanitarian, and journalist, passed away today. Braden came to the forefront of the movement for equality when she and her husband sold a home that they purchased, in a pre-arranged plan, to a Black couple in Louisville, Kentucky. The Bradens suffered horrendously at the hands of the power structure--as the home which they purchased in the test case was bombed and later her husband, Carl, was tried and convicted of sedition for their efforts surrounding their civil rights and humanitarian activism. This is a great loss.