Shelby Chapter Film Screening

Southern Patriot Shelby County film- screening
Anne Braden: Southern Patriot is a documentary exploration of the life and legacy of this American civil rights leader. After she was charged with sedition for attempting to desegregate a Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood in 1954, Braden used the attack to turn herself "inside out" and embarked upon a lifetime of racial justice organizing matched by

few white movement community and demonstrated that protecting civil liberties was essential to gaining civil rights. After decades of being shunned by even the most progressive organizations, in 1989 Anne Braden was awarded the first Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty from the American Civil Liberties Union as a “lifelong leader of the movements for racial justice, labor rights, and peace in the South.”

Event Date:

January 11, 2016 - 6:30pm to 8:30pm

Event Venue:

Shelby County Library

Event Location:

309 8th St.

Shelbyville, KY 40065

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Shelby Chapter Film Screening