I knew Anne Braden from the mid 1970’s until her death in March 2006. Of course, I knew of her before then. She was an icon of the Civil Rights Movement (CRM). I was aware she was mentioned by the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”...
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The Multiracial Movement – Lessons Learned
Part 3 of a 3-part series. The multiracial movement failed to grapple with white supremacy, and many racial justice activists to this day suspect that multiracial identity is a thinly disguised strategy for people aspiring to become white. Nor is that suspicion...
The Multiracial Movement – Retrospective Analysis
Part 2 of a 3-part series. The multiracial movement has faded now, even as the number and presence of multiracial people and families has grown. We felt we had something special to offer, standing as a rare example of people of different races living close at hand in...
The Multiracial Movement – A History
Part 1 of a 3-part series. From the early 1980s to the start of this century, there existed a publicly identified “multiracial movement” in the United States. Central to the movement were 30 grassroots support groups composed of interracial couples, transracially...
