(CIVIL RIGHTS) HERNDON ANGELO Let Me Live The Autobiography

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SIGNED BY ANGELO HERNDON AND GIL GREEN (CIVIL RIGHTS.) HERNDON, ANGELO. Let Me Live. The Autobiography of Angelo Herndon. Illustrated from photos. 409 pages. 8vo, original cloth; pictorial dust jacket by Hugo Gellert, very lightly rubbed. New York: Random House, (1937)

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first edition "special herndon edition," inscribed and signed by angelo herndon, and signed by Gil Green, African-American leader of the Young Communist League. Angelo Herndon (1913-1997) was the son of a coal miner. In 1930 he became involved with the "Unemployment Council," a group affiliated with the Communist Party. In 1932, Herndon traveled to Atlanta as a labor organizer. There he was arrested and convicted under a 19th-entury statute prohibiting the assembly of more than a few people--originally aimed at preventing slave insurrections. A capital offense, Herndon now faced a death sentence. His cause, together with that of the Scottsboro Boys, became a rallying point for the civil rights movement of the 1930s. His legal problems continued for nearly a decade. In 1937, in a 5 to 4 Supreme Court decision of Herndon was finally cleared of all charges.