"My beliefs and associations are none of the business of this committee." How legislative inquisitions stifle integration and social progress.
New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., [1961]. First Edition.
Scarce pamphlet about the Louisville civil-rights activist Carl Braden, who went to prison in 1961 for refusing to cooperate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. There's also plenty here about HUAC, racial justice, free speech, and the Red Scare of the 1950s.
The pamphlet doesn't show the name of the author. But in an interview with University of Louisville historian Catherine Fosl on March 7, 1989, Carl's wife, Anne Braden, said she wrote the pamphlet. (For more about the Bradens, see Fosl's book, Subversive Southerner: Anne Braden and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Cold War South. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002).
PHYSICAL DETAILS: Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 210 x 138 mm), 20, [2] pages, in side-stapled printed wrappers (soft cover).
CONDITION: Light toning to extremities, some rusting to staples, but internally clean and unmarked. Very Good or better. Item #2935
Price: $30.00