Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (1924-2006) is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed as a white southerner who was eloquent and prophetic by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail. Ostracized as a red, she fought for an inclusive movement community and mentored three generations of social justice activists.—Anonymous

'Anne Braden: Southern Patriot' by Appalshop filmmakers Anne Lewis and Mimi Pickering, provides a moving portrait of the life and times of the legendary white Southern activist. For a remarkable 60 years Braden participated in the most significant movements for racial and economic just in the country's most conservative region, the South. Cornel West, Bernice Johnson Reagon and Angela Davis among others discuss the implications for today of Braden's work intersecting race, class and gender