Desc: Anne Braden: Southern Patriot: Directed by Anne Lewis, Mimi Pickering. Anne Braden: Southern Patriot (1924-2006) is a first person documentary about the extraordinary life of this American civil rights leader. Braden was hailed as a white southerner who was eloquent and prophetic by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in his 1963 Letter from Birmingham Jail. Ostracized as a red, she fought for an inclusive movement community and mentored three generations of social justice activists.