Subversive Southerner Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South

"Laying out the inescapable interconnection of civil rights and civil liberties is Fosl's most impressive accomplishment. Though more glamorous accounts of the Red Scare tend to focus on Hollywood and the blacklist, it was the Southern variety of anti-Communism that exposed the systemically toxic dangers of curtailing the First Amendment's freedom of speech and of association....However, the main failing of SUBVERSIVE SOUTHERNER--unfortunately, it is a central one--is that Fosl...declines to discuss the substance of the Bradens' relationship with the Communist Party....The fullness of Anne Braden's humanity--complex, difficult, tormented and finally inspiring--does comes through. Whenever her own voice cuts into Fosl's diligent scholarship, we witness her drive and passion and discernment.Fosl, Catherine is the author of 'Subversive Southerner Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South', published 2002 under ISBN 9780312294878 and ISBN 0312294875.