The Angelo Herndon Case and Southern Justice
Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. xv, [1], 234 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Price clipped. DJ, in a plastic sleeve, has some wear, soiling, and edge tears/chips. The author was a historian on the faculty of the University of Alabama. Angelo Braxton Herndon (May 6, 1913 – December 9, 1997) was an African-American labor organizer arrested and convicted for insurrection after attempting to organize black and white industrial workers in 1932 in Atlanta, Georgia. The prosecution case rested heavily on Herndon's possession of "communist literature". He traveled from Kentucky to Georgia and solicited blacks and whites alike for membership in an integrated Communist Party of Atlanta. In July 1932, Herndon organized a hunger march and demonstration at the courthouse in Atlanta. On July 11, he checked on his mail at the Post Office and was arrested by two Atlanta detectives. Herndon was charged under a Reconstruction era law of insurrection in the state of Georgia. More