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From: David Lott <lag...@bellsouth.net>
SEDITION DAY
A racial justice volunteer fair and Braden Center work day in memory of Carl and Anne Braden
A great community-building day to work with friends sprucing up the Center followed by an anti-racist volunteer fair with lunch.
The day honors the anti-racist commitment of Anne and
Carl Braden, two white civil rights activists, on the anniversary of the month
they and five others were charged with sedition for selling a house to the Wade
family, an African-American couple, in 1954. Come for an hour or two in the
morning to help spruce up the Center (painting, staining the wheelchair ramp,
yardwork and other things) or just join us at the volunteer fair and lunch.
Schedule:
9A-1P Work day at the Braden
Center (wear some old
clothes for inside and outside work work)
1230 – 1:30 or 2:00P “Lunch and Mingle” (varieties of
chili for your tasting pleasure)
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What is “Lunch and Mingle”?
A great place for Louisville
social justice groups to get new volunteers for their organizing work. You are
invited to set up a table with your group’s literature, info on current
projects etc. Each group will be asked to feature how they do anti-racist work
within their particular areas of the justice movement, and get people to sign
up for those projects. The Lunch And Mingle will be a social justice version of
“speed dating” where everybody visits each table getting a stamp on
their card for each group they check out and give the group their contact
information. Once their card is full of the stamps the cards will be placed
into a hat for door prize drawings
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DOES YOUR GROUP WANT TO HAVE A TABLE TO HELP
RECRUIT MORE VOLUNTEERS? Bring your group information about your work and
projects and come on down!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Background Information
As newspaper reporters in the 1940s and '50s, Anne and
her husband, Carl, joined the struggle for social change. The couple found
themselves in the headlines in 1954 when they agreed to buy a house and then
transfer the title to a Black World War II veteran, Andrew Wade, and his wife,
Charlotte. The Wades had tried unsuccessfully to purchase a home in the
suburbs. After the Wades moved into the neighborhood, the house became a
target: rocks crashed through windows, a cross was burned on a neighbor's front
yard, shots were fired, and the house was damaged in a dynamite blast. During a
grand jury investigation of the bombing, the Bradens were questioned about
their political affiliations and were ultimately indicted for sedition, accused
of disloyalty to the state of Kentucky.
Carl Braden was sentenced to 15 years in prison and was jailed for seven months
before the conviction was overturned; Anne’s case never went to trial.
Anne wrote about the bombing and the subsequent legal action in her 1958 book
''The Wall Between," which was a finalist for the National Book Award.
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