What is Anne Braden?
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2021}} {{Infobox person | name = Anne McCarty Braden | image = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1924|7|28}} | birth_place = [[Louisville, Kentucky]], [[United States|USA]] | death_date = {{death date and age|2006|3|6|1924|7|24}} | death_place = [[Louisville, Kentucky]], [[United States of America|USA]] | spouse = [[Carl Braden]] | children = | movement = [[Civil Rights Movement]] and [[Peace Movement]] | organization = | monuments = | awards = [[American Civil Liberties Union]]s Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty | religion = | influences = | influenced = | footnotes = }} '''Anne Braden''' (July 28, 1924 – March 6, 2006) was an [[Americans|American]] [[Civil Rights Movement|civil rights]] [[activism|activist]] and [[newspaper]] journalist.<ref>{{cite web|title=Anne Braden|publisher=The Veterans of Hope|url=http://www.veteransofhope.org/veteran/anne-braden|access-date=Apr 1, 2015}}</ref> She worked for newspapers in [[Louisville, Kentucky]], [[Anniston, Alabama]] and [[Birmingham, Alabama]]. She also worked for the civil rights movement. ==Early activism== In 1948, she married Carl Braden. He was a journalist too. They were interested in [[Henry A. Wallace|Henry Wallace]]'s campaign to be [[President of the United States]]. Not long after Wallace lost, they left [[mainstream]] [[journalism]]. After [[World War II]], the labor movement grew less [[aggression|aggressive]]. It began to break apart into smaller groups. At the same time, [[civil rights]] causes heated up. In the 1940s, some hospitals were [[Racial segregation|racially segregated]]. [[Black people]] were not treated in the same area as white people. In 1950, Anne Braden led a hospital [[racial integration]] drive in [[Kentucky]]. She wanted to show that such racial segregation was a bad idea. In 1951 she led a group of southern white women organized by the Civil Rights Congress to [[Mississippi]].<ref name=AWTT>{{cite web|title=Anne Braden|publisher=Am