Research Catalog

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Description

1. 27 items (1 folder)

Summary

1. 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.

Donor/Sponsor

1. Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.

Subject

1. Herndon, Angelo, 1913-
2. Communist trials -- Georgia
3. African American communists
4. Communist parties -- United States
5. Labor movement -- United States
6. Georgia -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950

Call number

1. Sc Micro R-981, Reel 22

Note

1. Now forms part of the Angelo Herndon papers; Sc MG 124.
2. Additional material on Herndon can be found on reels 17 and 18.

Access (note)

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional formats (note)

1. Available on microfilm as part of the International Labor Defense Records, University Publications of America.

Biography (note)

1. Angelo Herndon was a labor and Communist Party organizer who was convicted and sentenced to twenty years hard labor on charges of attempting to incite insurrection in Georgia in 1932. He had led a demonstration of unemployed African Americans and whites to protest cuts in relief rations, and was later arrested for possessing Communist literature and charged with insurrection. The latter charge was based on an 1861 anti-slavery insurrection law. Herndon's case was a cause celebre among leftist and civil rights circles. He was released from prison before serving the full term, through the efforts of these organizations, particularly the International Labor Defense.

Processing action (note)

1. Processed

Author

1. Herndon, Angelo, 1913-

Title

1. Angelo Herndon collection, 1934-1938.

Access

1. Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.

Additional formats

1. Available on microfilm as part of the International Labor Defense Records, University Publications of America.

Biography

1. Angelo Herndon was a labor and Communist Party organizer who was convicted and sentenced to twenty years hard labor on charges of attempting to incite insurrection in Georgia in 1932. He had led a demonstration of unemployed African Americans and whites to protest cuts in relief rations, and was later arrested for possessing Communist literature and charged with insurrection. The latter charge was based on an 1861 anti-slavery insurrection law. Herndon's case was a cause celebre among leftist and civil rights circles. He was released from prison before serving the full term, through the efforts of these organizations, particularly the International Labor Defense.

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Research call number

1. Sc Micro R-981, Reel 22