- Creator
- Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997
- Call number
- Sc Micro R-981, Reel 22
- Physical description
- 27 items (1 folder)
- Preferred Citation
- Angelo Herndon collection, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
- Status note
- Access to this collection is via microfilm reel. To request the microfilm reel from this collection, please click on the value in the Call Number field above to visit the catalog record, then click on the Request for onsite use button to make your request.
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. 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.
Using the collection
Location
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division515 Malcolm X Boulevard, New York, NY 10037-1801
Second Floor
Access restrictions
Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
Alternative form available
Available on microfilm as part of the International Labor Defense Records, University Publications of America