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Carl Braden (June 24, 1914 – February 8, 1975) was born in New Albany, Indiana, and died in Louisville, Kentucky. He was a left-wing trade unionist and social justice activist. He worked for the ''Louisville Herald-Post'', ''Cincinnati Enquirer'' (1937–45), 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. In 1948, while working as a reporter in Kentucky, he met and married fellow journalist Anne Gambrell McCarty. The Bradens had three children: James, born in 1951, a 1972 Rhodes Scholar, and a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School (where he preceded Barack Obama as editor of the Harvard Law Review), has lived and practiced law for over 25 years in San Francisco, California. Elizabeth, born in 1960, has worked as a teacher in many countries around the world, serving as of 2006 in that capacity in rural Ethiopia. Anita, born in 1953, died of a pulmonary disorder at the age of 11. While raising their children, Carl and his wife Anne Braden remained deeply involved in the civil rights cause and the subsequent social movements it prompted from the 1960s to the 1970s, because of this they were frequent targets for attacks from southern white supremacists. ==The Wade incident== In 1954, as a method of protesting the rigid practice of racial segregation in neighborhoods, the Bradens arranged to purchase a house in an all-white neighborhood of Louisville and deed it over to Andrew Wade and his wife, who were African-American. White supremacists lashed out at this act and tried to intimidate the Wades with cross burnings and bombings. Carl's wife, Anne, carefully chronicled the ordeal and used it as the basis for her book ''The Wall Between'', published in 1958. As a result of their actions, Carl Braden was charged with sedition, since working for racial integration was interpreted by many southern whites as an outright sign of communist support. He was sentenced to 15 years and ended up serving eight months before he was released on the highest bond ever set in Kentucky up to that time. In 1967, the Bradens were again charged with sedition for protesting the practice of strip-mining in Pike County, Kentucky. They used this case to test the Kentucky sedition law, which was eventually ruled unconstitutional. The Bradens dedicated their lives to impelling whites into the cause of justice for all people. After Carl's death, Anne Braden remained active in networks of anti-racist work. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Carl Braden」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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