Braden, Carl, 1914-1975
Biography:
Journalist and social justice activist, was born in New Albany, Indiana in 1914 and died February 8, 1975 in Louisville, Kentucky. Worked for the Louisville Herald-Post, Cincinnati Enquirer (1937-1945), and Louisville Times. He also wrote for other news services including the Harlan Daily Enterprise, the Knoxville Journal, the New York Daily News, the Chicago Tribune, the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Newsweek, and the Federated Press. Braden and his wife Anne were active in civil rights organizations and efforts in Louisville including the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, the Urban League, the 1948 Progressive party campaign, the Militant Church Movement, and efforts to desegregate private hospitals, nurse training programs, parks, and schools. In 1954 the couple helped buy a house for an African American family in an all-white suburb of Louisville, Kentucky. Both were charged with sedition, and Carl was sentenced to fifteen years in prison and a $5,000 fine, but served only eight months of his sentence before he was able to raise his appeal bond. In 1956 the Kentucky Court of Appeals overturned his conviction. In 1957, he became a field organizer for the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) and became coeditor of the Southern Patriot, a publication of the SCEF. Charged with contempt of Congress by the House Unamerican Activities Committee, he was sentenced to one year in prison (1961 to 1962). From 1966 to 1972, Carl and Anne Braden served as executive directors of SCEF. After leaving SCEF, he helped found the National Alliance against Racist and Political Repression. (American National Biography)
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Archival Collections and Reference Resources
- Anne Braden Oral History Project (Kentucky Virtual Library)
- Interview with Andrew Wade, November 8, 1989 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Anne Braden, June 11, 1996 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Anne Braden, March 7, 1989 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Anne Braden, March 8 and 9, 1989 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Anne Braden, November 10, 1994 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Anne Braden, November 8, 1989 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Christopher Gastinger, June 25, 1991 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Eric Tachau and Mary Tachau, November 11, 1989 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Fred Shuttlesworth, December 6, 1997 (Oral histories)
- Interview with George Yater and Marjorie Yater, December 11, 1997 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Henry Wallace and Carla Wallace, December 9, 1997 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Jan Phillips, June 24, 1991 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Julian Bond, September 14, 1997 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Louis Lusky, April 20, 1999 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Lyman T. Johnson, June 24, 1991 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Millie Neal, June 25, 1991 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Robert Zellner, November 3, 1990 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Suzanne W. Post, June 24, 1991 (Oral histories)
- Interview with Tom Moffett, November 7, 1989 (Oral histories)
- Interview with William Allison, June 23, 1991 (Oral histories)
- Carl and Anne Braden Papers (University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections)
- Individuals Active in Civil Disturbances, volume 2 (Alabama Department of Archives and History)
- Living the Story: The Civil Rights Movement in Kentucky (Kentucky Educational Television)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Folders (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Series 2515 : Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission Records Online, 1994-2006, Photographs (Mississippi Department of Archives and History)
- Letter: Los Angeles, California, to Carl and Anne Braden, Louisville, Kentucky, 1959 July 21 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: Los Angeles, California, to James Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963 August 21 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: Los Angeles, California, to James Dombrowski, New Orleans, Louisiana, 1963 June 4 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: Louisville, Kentucky, to James Dombrowski and Henri, 1962 December 11 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: Montgomery, Alabama, to G. Bromley Oxnam, Washington, D.C., 1960 January 21 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to Howard Melish, Atlanta, Georgia, 1962 April 9 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to Jim Dombrowski, 1963 July 19 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to Jim Dombrowski, 1963 July 19 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shomer, Chicago, Illinois, 1962 March 3 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to Mr. and Mrs. Howard Shomer, Chicago, Illinois, 1962 March 3 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Salter, Jr., Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1962 December 11 (Letters (correspondence))
- Letter: to Mr. and Mrs. John R. Salter, Jr., Tougaloo, Mississippi, 1962 December 11 (Letters (correspondence))
- Memorandum: to Howard Melish, 1963 January 18 (Correspondence)
- Memorandum: to Jim Dombrowski, 1962 July 23 (Memorandums)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission image of a newspaper article entitled, "Many Ask Braden's Freedom" that appeared in the Southern Patriot, Nashville, Tennessee, 1960s (Newspapers)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Correspondence from Carl Braden] (Correspondence)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Correspondence from Carl Braden to Jim Dombrowski] (Correspondence)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Correspondence from Carl Braden to Jim Dombrowski] (Correspondence)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of male speaking to group] (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Image of Southern Conference Educational Fund meeting minutes] (Minutes)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Mississippi field trip report] (Reports)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Mississippi field trip report] (Reports)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of (StillImage)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of (StillImage)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a signed petition calling for an executive pardon for Carl Braden, Atlanta, Georgia, 1961 (Petitions)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a typewritten biographical sketch of Anne Braden, 1960s (Texts (document genres))
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of a typewritten document listing the job titles and addresses of Carl Braden and James A. Dombrowski, 1961 July 14 (Texts (document genres))
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of an inscription appearing on the backside of a photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr., Anne Braden, Carl Braden and James A. Dombrowski taken at a conference for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, Birmingham, Alabama, 1962 September 27 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of an unidentified female in the foreground standing beside a microphone with two middle aged men sitting in the background, Mississippi, 1960s (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of Martin Luther King, Jr. speaking at a conference for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference with Anne Braden, Carl Braden and James A. Dombrowski seated in the background, Birmingham, Alabama, 1962 September 27 (Black-and-white photographs)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph of masthead of Southern Conference Educational Fund's Southern Patriot, Nashville, Tennessee, 1963 October (Newspapers)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Southern Conference Educational Fund meeting minutes] (Minutes)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Southern Conference Educational Fund meeting minutes] (Minutes)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Southern Conference Educational Fund memorandum] (Memorandums)
- Mississippi State Sovereignty Commission photograph [Southern Conference Educational Fund minutes] (Minutes)
- Wisconsin Historical Images (Wisconsin Historical Society)