Documentary sheds light on local civil rights activist Anne
Braden Anne Braden preferred not to talk much about herself.
Part of this was modesty, but mostly she was just far too busy
devoting time to her tireless life’s mission of civil rights and
social justice. Fortunately for those who did not know Braden,
she opened herself up in the last years of her life to detail
her amazing journey, from a privileged childhood in the
segregated South to a legacy as one of the most important white
leaders of the civil rights movement. Mimi Pickering — who with
Ann Lewis directed the Appalshop documentary “Anne Braden:
Southern Patriot,” which has its Louisville premier Sunday —
says Braden shared her life story with students, historians and
the filmmakers in order to make such a path accessible for those
who followed her. “She was seeing that by telling her story, it
was really a way to engage new generations and new communities
in the history that she had been involved in,” Pickering tells
LEO. “That her story could