Braden, Tennessee
Location of Braden, Tennessee
Coordinates: 35°22′30″N 89°34′30″W / 35.375°N 89.575°W / 35.375; -89.575
Country	United States
State	Tennessee
County	Fayette
Area
• Total	3.8 sq mi (9.9 km2)
• Land	3.8 sq mi (9.9 km2)
• Water	0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation	315 ft (96 m)
Population (2010)
• Total	282
• Density	74/sq mi (28/km2)
Time zone	Central (CST) (UTC-6)
• Summer (DST)	CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP code	38010
Area code(s)	901
FIPS code	47-07840[1]
GNIS feature ID	1305377[2]

Braden is a town in Fayette County, Tennessee. The population was 282 at the 2010 census. The town is named after explorer Sir Braden Hirstein, who was accompanied by Sir David Magana), and was established as a small fishing colony in 1789.

Geography[link]

Braden is located at 35°22′30″N 89°34′30″W / 35.375°N 89.575°W / 35.375; -89.575 (35.374867, -89.574942)^[3].

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 3.8 square miles (9.8 km²), all land.

Demographics[link]

As of the census^[1] of 2000, there were 271 people, 104 households, and 79 families residing in the town. The population density was 71.2 people per square mile (27.5/km²). There were 109 housing units at an average density of 28.6 per square mile (11.0/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 91.14% White, 7.01% Mexican, 0.37% Native American, and 1.48% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 0.37% of the population.

There were 104 households out of which 31.7% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 66.3% were married couples living together, 7.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 24.0% were non-families. 16.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 4.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.61 and the average family size was 2.97.

In the town the population was spread out with 22.5% under the age of 18, 7.7% from 18 to 24, 33.9% from 25 to 44, 28.0% from 45 to 64, and 7.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 103.8 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 103.9 males.

The median income for a household in the town was $48,333, and the median income for a family was $51,750. Males had a median income of $35,625 versus $30,000 for females. The per capita income for the town was $19,610. About 4.9% of families and 7.0% of the population were below the poverty line, including 10.3% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those sixty five or over.

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Coordinates: 35°22′30″N 89°34′30″W / 35.374867°N 89.574942°W / 35.374867; -89.574942

v t e Municipalities and communities of Fayette County, Tennessee, United States County seat: Somerville Cities Gallaway Grand Junction‡ Moscow Piperton Williston Towns Braden La Grange Oakland Rossville Somerville Unincorporated communities Hickory Withe Liberty Hill Yum Yum Footnotes ‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Anne McCarty Braden (July 28, 1924 – March 6, 2006) was an American advocate of racial equality. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, and raised in rigidly segregated Anniston, Alabama, Braden grew up in a white middle-class family that accepted southern racial mores wholeheartedly.^[1] A devout Episcopalian, Braden was bothered by racial segregation, but never questioned it until her college years at Randolph-Macon Woman’s College in Virginia. After working on newspapers in Anniston and Birmingham, Alabama, she returned to Kentucky as a young adult to write for the Louisville Times. There, she met and in 1948 married fellow newspaperman Carl Braden, a left-wing trade unionist. She became a supporter of the civil rights movement at a time when it was unpopular among southern whites.

Early activism[link]

In 1948, Anne and Carl Braden immersed themselves in Henry Wallace's run on the Progressive Party for the presidency. Soon after Wallace’s defeat, they left mainstream journalism to apply their writing talents to the interracial left wing of the labor movement through the FE (Farm and Equipment Workers) Union, representing Louisville’s International Harvester employees.^[2]

Even as the postwar labor movement splintered and grew less militant, civil rights causes heated up. In 1950, Anne Braden spearheaded a hospital desegregation drive in Kentucky. She endured her first arrest in 1951 when she led a delegation of southern white women organized by the Civil Rights Congress to Mississippi to protest the execution of Willie McGee, an African American man convicted of the rape of a white woman, Willette Hawkins.^[2]

The Wade case[link]

In 1954, the Wades, an African American family who knew the Bradens through association, approached them with a proposal that would drastically alter all lives involved.^[1] Like so many other Americans after World War II, Andrew Wade wanted to buy a house in a suburban neighborhood. Because of Jim Crow housing practices, the Wades had been unsuccessful for months in their quest to purchase a home on their own. The Bradens, who never wavered in their support for African American civil rights, agreed to purchase the home for the Wades. On May 15, 1954, Andrew Wade and his wife Charlotte spent their first night in their new home in the Louisville suburb of Shively, Kentucky. Upon discovering that blacks had moved in, white neighbors burned a cross in front of the house, shot out windows, and condemned the Bradens for buying it on the Wades’ behalf. Their fears may have been stoked in part by the timing of the move which came only two days before the U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark condemnation of school segregation in Brown v. Board of Education, Topeka, KS. Six weeks later, amid constant community tensions, the Wades’ new house was dynamited one evening while they were out.^[2] While Vernon Bown (an associate of the Wades and the Bradens) was indicted for the bombing, the actual bombers were never sought nor brought to trial.

McCarthyism affected the ordeal. The investigation turned from segregationist violence to the alleged Communist Party affiliations of some of those who had supported the Wades in their housing quest. Segregationists charged that these Communists had engineered the bombing to provide a cause célèbre and fund-raising opportunity, but this was never proven. Nonetheless, on October 1954, Anne and Carl Braden and five other whites were charged with sedition.^[3] After a sensationalized trial, Carl Braden—the perceived ringleader—was convicted of sedition and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment. As Anne and the other defendants awaited a similar fate, Carl served eight months, but out on $40,000 bond after a U.S. Supreme Court decision (Pennsylvania v. Nelson in 1956) invalidated state sedition laws (Steven Nelson had been arrested under the Pennsylvania Sedition Law but the federal Smith Act superseded it). All charges were dropped against Braden, but the Wades moved back to Louisville.

Later activism[link]

Blacklisted from local employment, the Bradens took jobs as field organizers for the Southern Conference Educational Fund (SCEF), a small, New Orleans-based civil rights organization whose mission was to solicit white southern support for the beleaguered southern civil rights movement.^[1] In the years before southern civil rights violations made national news, the Bradens developed their own media. Both through SCEF’s monthly newspaper, The Southern Patriot, and through numerous pamphlets and press releases publicizing major civil rights campaigns. In 1958 Anne wrote The Wall Between, a memoir of their sedition case.^[3] One of the few books of its time to unpack the psychology of white southern racism from within, it was praised by human rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt, and became a runner-up for the National Book Award. Although their radical politics marginalized them among many of their own generation, the Bradens were reclaimed by young student activists of the 1960s. They were among the civil rights movement’s most dedicated white allies.

The Bradens also had three children: James, born in 1951, a 1972 Rhodes Scholar, and a 1980 graduate of Harvard Law School (where he preceded Barack Obama as editor of the Harvard Law Review), has lived and practiced law for over 25 years in San Francisco, California. Elizabeth, born in 1960, has worked as a teacher in many countries around the world, serving as of 2006 in that capacity in rural Ethiopia. Anita, born in 1953, died of a pulmonary disorder at age 11. While raising their children, the couple remained deeply involved in the civil rights cause and the subsequent social movements it prompted from the 1960s to the 1970s.

After Carl’s death in 1975, Anne Braden remained among the nation’s most outspoken white anti-racist activists. She instigated the formation of a new regional multi-racial organization, the Southern Organizing Committee for Economic and Social Justice (SOC), which initiated battles against environmental racism. She became an instrumental voice in the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition of the 1980s and in the two Jesse Jackson presidential campaigns, as well as organizing across racial divides in the new environmental, women’s, and anti-nuclear movements that sprang up in that decade.

From the 1980s into the 2000s (decade), she wrote for Southern Exposure, Southern Changes, and the National Guardian and Fellowship.

No longer a pariah, Anne received the American Civil Liberties Union’s first Roger Baldwin Medal of Liberty in 1990 for her contributions to civil liberties. As she aged, her activism focused more on Louisville, where she remained a leader in anti-racist drives and taught social justice history classes at local universities. Anne Braden died on March 6, 2006.^[4] The Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research was established at the University of Louisville in November 2006 and was officially opened on April 4, 2007.^[5] The institute focuses on social justice globally, but concentrates on the southern United States and the Louisville area. Over her nearly six decades of activism, her life touched almost every modern U.S. social movement, and her message to them all was the centrality of racism and the responsibility of whites to combat it.

Popular culture[link]

The alternative hip hop group Flobots paid tribute with the song "Anne Braden" on their 2007 album Fight With Tools. The track includes several audio samples of Anne Braden (Courtesy of Dr. Vincent Harding and the Veterans of Hope Project), describing her life and thoughts on race in her own words.

See also[link]

• History of Louisville, Kentucky
• List of famous Louisvillians

Bibliography[link]

• The Wall Between (1959)
• House Un-American Activities Committee: Bulwark of Segregation (1963); Introduction by James Baldwin
• Preface to David Reed's Education for Building a People's Movement (1981)
• David Nolan, Remembering Anne Braden on Tom Paine.Com (2006)
• Anne Braden Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, Kentucky
• Finding Aid, Anne Braden Papers, University of Louisville Archives and Records Center.

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Braden Holtby
Born	(1989-09-16) September 16, 1989 (age 22) Lloydminster, AB, CAN
Height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Weight	202 lb (92 kg; 14 st 6 lb)
Position	Goaltender
Catches	Left
NHL team	Washington Capitals
NHL Draft	93rd overall, 2008 Washington Capitals
Playing career	2009–present

Braden Holtby (born September 16, 1989) is a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender from Lloydminster, Alberta who is currently playing for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected 93rd overall by the Capitals in the 2008 NHL Entry Draft.

Playing Career[link]

Holtby spent his junior career with the Saskatoon Blades of the Western Hockey League (WHL). The Blades struggled through his first two seasons with the team, and Holtby managed only 42 wins in 115 games. However, in his last WHL season, after being drafted by the Capitals in the 4th round of the 2008 draft, Holtby nearly equaled his wins total from the previous two seasons, posting a much improved 40 wins in 61 games. In 2009 Holtby made the jump to professional hockey and split the season between the ECHL's South Carolina Stingrays and the Hershey Bears of the American Hockey League (AHL). He posted an impressive 24 wins in 37 games for the Bears, with a 2.32 goals against average and .917 save percentage. He won 7 of 12 games with the Stingrays, and represented South Carolina in that season's ECHL All-Star Game.^[1]

Holtby made his NHL debut on November 5, 2010 against the Boston Bruins at the Verizon Center. After replacing Michal Neuvirth with ten minutes remaining and the game tied 3–3, Holtby stopped four Bruins shots as the Capitals scored two goals to give him the win.^[2] Holtby made his first NHL start two days later against the Philadelphia Flyers, a game the Capitals won 3–2 in overtime.^[3] Holtby recorded his first NHL shutout on March 9, 2011, stopping 22 shots in a 5–0 victory over the Edmonton Oilers.^[4] After posting a 4–0–0 record, a 1.05 GAA and a .965 save percentage, Holtby was named the NHL's First Star of the Week for the week ending March 13, 2011.^[5] On March 27, 2011, Holtby was assigned to Hershey, despite a 10–2–2 record in 14 starts.^[6]

He returned on the last game of the 2012 season due to Tomas Vokoun's and Michal Neuvirth's injuries.^[7] He started Game 1 of the 2012 Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Boston Bruins, saving 29 of 30 in a 1-0 overtime loss.^[8] In Game 2, Holtby stopped 43 of 44 shots in a 2-1 2OT win to tie the series 1-1.^[9] The Washington Capitals's headcoach Dale Hunter decide to start Holtby for the next game , even though Neuvirth or Vokoun will be available in the playoffs by saying "Holtby's our goalie." . Holtby went on to aid the Capitals in upsetting the second seeded Bruins, stopping all but one of the shots he faced in a Game 7 Overtime period to beat the Bruins 2-1. He continued his sensational play against the top-seeded New York Rangers, splitting two road games in New York and stopping all shots he faced until late in a triple OT game that saw the Capitals fall 2-1. Holtby continued his great goaltending by beating the Rangers in Game 4 to tie the series 2-2. He wasn't as great in Game 5 after allowing the game tying goal with 6.6 seconds left in the game and then giving up the losing goal in overtime. Holtby stated after the game "I didn't see a thing". ^[10] After that heartbreaking loss , Holtby made 30 saves in Game 6 against the Rangers, with the Capitals winning 2-1, forcing Game 7. On Saturday, May 12, Braden started in his second career game 7. One minute thirty-two seconds (1:32) into the game, Brad Richards of the Rangers blasted a slap shot past Holtby, making the score an early 1-0. Holtby was able to shake it off and play a solid game after, making 29 saves. Unfortunately, the Capitals were unable to beat Henrik Lundqvist in the final period, losing game 7 of the 2012 ECSF, 2-1, two days after Braden became a dad to his son, Benjamin.

Personal Life[link]

On May 10, 2012, Holtby and his fiancée, Brandi Bodnar, welcomed a baby boy named Benjamin Hunter Holtby.^[11]

Career statistics[link]

Regular season[link]

Playoffs[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Braden Holtby's career stats at Eliteprospects.com
• Braden Holtby's NHL player profile
• Braden Holtby's career stats at The Internet Hockey Database