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Angelo Herndon collection
- Title
- Angelo Herndon collection, 1934-1938.
- Author
- Herndon, Angelo, 1913-
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| Status | Container | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person. | r. 22 | Mixed material | Use in library | Sc Micro R-981 r. 22 | Schomburg Center - Research & Reference |
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- Description
- 27 items (1 folder)
- Summary
- 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
- Schomburg NEH Automated Access to Special Collections Project.
- Subjects
- Note
- Now forms part of the Angelo Herndon papers; Sc MG 124.
- Additional material on Herndon can be found on reels 17 and 18.
- Access (note)
- Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
- Additional Formats (note)
- Available on microfilm as part of the International Labor Defense Records, University Publications of America.
- Biography (note)
- 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)
- Processed
- Call Number
- Sc Micro R-981, Reel 22
- OCLC
- NYPW086000028-A
- Author
- Herndon, Angelo, 1913-
- Title
- Angelo Herndon collection, 1934-1938.
- Access
- Researchers are restricted to microfilm copy.
- Additional Formats
- Available on microfilm as part of the International Labor Defense Records, University Publications of America.
- Biography
- 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
- Sc Micro R-981, Reel 22