The Wall Between
Book description
"The Wall Between is a chilling depiction of a pattern repeated over and over again across the South as brave Blacks and whites tried to breach the barrier between the races. . . . We need to know Anne Braden's story, perhaps even more in 1999 than when she wrote…
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1 author picked The Wall Between as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I met Anne Braden at an anti-racism conference in the 80s.
When I heard this older white woman with a thick Southern accent began to speak about the Civil Rights Movement as the second American revolution, I began to cry.
I was feeling very alone as a white woman in Women’s Studies trying to bring race to the center of the discipline as well as my activism. I was both relieved to know that Braden existed and pained that I had never heard of her.
The book is a memoir of what happened to Anne and her husband Carl when…
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