Angelo Herndon collection, 1934-1938.

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Angelo Herndon collection, 1934-1938.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122517351

The Angelo Herndon collection consist of correspondence, several legal briefs from the Supreme Court of Georgia, a printed article concerning the legal case, and miscellaneous papers.

27 items (1 folder)

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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SNAC Resource ID: 6744508

New York Public Library System, NYPL

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Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997

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Communist Party organizer in Georgia and renowned African-American political prisoner in the 1930s. Angelo Herndon, who helped organized a protest march of Black and white unemployed workers in Atlanta in 1932, was found guilty of "inciting to insurrection" in a Fulton County court, under an 1861 slave stature, and condemned to 18 to 20 years on a Georgia chain gang. A petition drive for his release organized by the International Labor Defense collected two million signatures. Freed on bail in D...