(CIVIL RIGHTS) HERNDON ANGELO Angelo Herndon Negro Communist

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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) HERNDON, ANGELO. "Angelo Herndon, Negro Communist Leader." 8 x 10 press photograph, with caption and United Press stamps on reverse. Georgia, 1935

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Angelo Braxton Herndon (1913-1997), shown here shackled from head to toe, was an African-American labor organizer arrested and convicted under an ancient slavery period Southern law for "insurrection." He was seized after attempting to organize black and white industrial workers alike in Atlanta in 1932. The law, growing out of insurrections like that of Nat Turner in 1831, was harsh and carried a death sentence. Herndon's case, together with that of the Scottsboro Boys, became the rallying point for the beginnings of a modern Civil Rights movement that would include widespread white participation. He was defended by Benjamin Davis Jr among others who after a lengthy series of trials and hearings got him released in 1937.