Anne Braden – Freedom Fighter

For this project I focused on Anne Braden, a well known leader of the Civil Rights Movement.  She went against everyone she knew and loved to defend the rights of everyone regardless of race.  Mixed in are clips from various different speeches by different activists and group leaders as well as I slow melodic tune to set the pace.

A different view

I juxtaposed ‘The Gettysburg Address’ by Abraham Lincoln and ‘I Have a Dream Speech’ by Martin Luther King Jr. using stereo positioning to create the effect of conversational echo. These two speeches have such a close tie that they begged to be heard together and purposefully overlap during the beginning and end of the piece.

I placed Native American ‘Day of the Dead’ celebration tones underneath. This third contrast was to subtly deliver the ignored plight of the Native American to the subconscious.