Historical Marker

Home to Campaigns for Racial Justice/Carl Braden Memorial Center

Historical marker location:

Louisville, Kentucky

( 3208 West Broadway, Louisville, KY)

Home to Campaigns for Racial Justice - Home first to the Southern Conference Educational Fund & then the KY Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression, the Braden Memorial Center has housed organizations working to end racism, war, & poverty since 1969. From Vietnam War resisters to the 1980s Rainbow Coalition to global peace activists, the Center has been a local hub for justice.

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Carl Braden Memorial Center - Carl and Anne Braden were committed to bringing together people of color and white people to work for social and racial justice. National figures such as Dick Gregory, Angela Davis, Jesse Jackson, and Pete Seeger often joined the Bradens and local activists at the Center. Univ. of Louisville Anne Braden Institute For Social Justice Research & Carl Braden Memorial Center. Dedicated September 29, 2019.