The Other America: An Anne Braden Story
Created by the Squallis Puppeteers

Inspired by Anne Braden’s 1958 memoir, “The Wall Between,” this puppet film combines tabletop puppetry, shadow puppetry, and a “crankie” scroll to tell the story of how two families challenged Louisville, Kentucky’s segregated housing market. In 2002, an elderly Anne Braden recounts from her living room the 1954 story of when she and her husband Carl (both of whom were white) purchased a house in an all-white neighborhood on behalf of their friends Andrew and Charlotte Wade (who were Black). The Wades and Bradens endured a backlash of white supremacist hatred in the midst of anti-communist hysteria, and none of their lives would ever be the same again. To mark the 70th anniversary of the Wade-Braden case, join us for a screening of the film and a subsequent panel about the making of the film and the reverberations of the case into 2024.

2021, U.S., DCP, 42 minutes. Content warning: contains images and stories of racially motivated violence, including references to lynching. Recommended for ages 9+.

Includes a post-screening discussion with Steven Ebbs, Great-nephew of Charlotte and Andrew Wade; Isaac Fosl-van Wyke, artist/educator and director, writer, voice actor, and crankie artist for The Other America; Nora Christensen, Executive Director, Squallis Puppeteers and puppeteer for The Other America, and a representative from the Carl Braden Memorial Center; moderated by Amber Duke, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky.

Sponsored by The Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research, UofL, The Carl Braden Memorial Center, American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky, Metropolitan Housing Coalition, Commonwealth Center for Humanities and Society, UofL, and Department of History, UofL.