Biography
Anne Braden was a journalist and civil-rights organizer who helped Andrew and Charlotte Wade buy a home in a segregated white neighborhood near Louisville. Authorities arrested her on October 1, 1954 on Kentucky sedition charges and held her until her parents posted $10,000 bond on October 8. Her trial was repeatedly postponed, and the charge was dropped in November 1956 after the Supreme Court invalidated state sedition laws.
Anne Braden’s first-person account describes a separate 1967 Pike County sedition prosecution: she and Carl were added as defendants and jailed after refusing to post $10,000 bond. The account says a federal court invalidated the state sedition law on September 14, 1967. It does not give either person’s custody endpoints or duration; the McSurelys’ one-week confinement is not assigned to the Bradens.
Southern Exposure, September/October 1983, printed page 24 / PDF page 26.
