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Woman Distributing Leaflets
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A Caucasian woman, identified as Barbara Deming, hands leaflets to an African American family on a front porch. The location is tentatively identified as Georgia. This image comes from the collection of Carl and Anne Braden, who were both civil rights activists with SCEF (Southern Conference Educational Fund).
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975; Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
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SCEF Speakers Bureau
1971
Civil rights and anti-war activists Carl Braden and Virginia Collins being interviewed during a speaking tour sponsored by the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF). Mrs. Collins was the moth...
Braden Center
1973
Group standing in front of the SCEF (Southern Conference Education Fund) headquarters. The group includes Anne Braden in the blue jacket, and Carl Braden to her left. The building was later renam...
Anne Braden
October 1962
Anne Braden in the SCEF (Southern Conference Education Fund) office where she edited the organization's newsletter, The Southern Patriot.
Eleanor Roosevelt Speaks for SCEF
May 26, 1959
Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at a fund-raising event for SCEF, the Southern Conference Educational Fund, held at the Hotel Delmonico. She praised SCEF particularly because it was an interracial organiz...
Aubrey Williams at SCHW Meeting
November 1946
Aubrey Williams (seated at right), who would become president of the Southern Conference Education Fund (SCEF) at the annual convention of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare. Williams was p...
Fred Shuttlesworth
February 3, 1964
The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth speaks to the 1964 annual meeting of the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF) after being elected president of the organization.
