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Kentucky newspaperman Carl Braden, out of prison on bail, will attack the court which convicted him of bombing a Negro friend's house, in a report on Southern segregation tonight at 8 p.m. in New Lecture Hall...
...Southern defenders of the Negro's civil rights will speak in New Lecture Hall this week as a part of National Negro History Week program. Carl Braden will speak Wednesday at 8 p.m., and Dr. T. R. M. Howard will speak Thursday...
...Braden, a Kentucky newsman, presently out of prison on bail, will look at the segregation problem through a specific incident. It 1954, Braden bought a house in a white residential section, which he promptly resold to a Negro war veteran, Andrew Wade. The Wades were terrorized in subsequent months by the Ku Klux Klan. The violence culminated in June, 1954, when their house was destroyed by a dynamite explosion...
...Grand Jury investigation following the explosion, Braden was convicted of bombing his house for his own political ends and was sentenced, under a rarely-used sedition law, to 15 years in jail and a $5000 fine. He will speak on the significance of this case in civil rights...
...trial, Braden denied that he was a Communist. Then last week Alberta Ahearn, 44, a Louisville seamstress who had been an undercover FBI agent, testified that she had not only attended a party-cell meeting in Braden's home, but had paid her party dues to him. With that clinching evidence of Braden's Communist activity and his conviction, the Courier-Journal at long last came around to agreeing with its critics, fired Braden...