Eugene Angelo Braxton Herndon
1913 - 1997
Background Materials:
Rouge et Noir Reread: A Popular Constitutional History of the Angelo Herndon Case, Kendall Thomas
Victory. Decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Case of Angelo Herndon, April 1937, [Full Text]
"An Insinuating Voice". Angelo Herndon and the Invisible Genesis of the Radical Prison Slave's Neo-Slave Narrative, Dennis Childs
Works and Articles about His Case:
1933: Send Negro Organizer to Death on Chain Gang, R. H. Hart, Daily Worker, January 20, 1933
1933: Daily Worker Editorial: Smash the Southern Slave-Code!, Daily Worker, January 21, 1933
1933: "Smash the Chain Gang System!" Appeals Latest Victim. Angelo Herndon in Georgia Jail Sends Message, Daily Worker, January 26, 1933
1933: The Political Significance of the Herndon Case, Otto Hall, Daily Worker, February 4, 1933
1933: Herndon New Appeal from Death Cell, Daily Worker, February 7, 1933
1933: Daily Worker Editorial: What of a "Negro" Newspaper that Helps White Ruling Class Lynchers?, Daily Worker, February 7, 1933
1933: Building a Mass Movement to Win Freedom for Angelo Herndon, Syd Benson, Daily Worker, March 21, 1933
1933: On the Struggle to Release A. Herndon from Chain Gang, Allen Johnson, Daily Worker, June 8, 1933
1933: A Call to Fight Fascism from Angelo Herndon, Labor Defender, July 1933
1933: A Letter from Angelo Herndon, Labor Defender, December 1933
1934: In Memory of Harry Simms, Angelo Herndon, Labor Defender, February 1934
1934: A Letter from Angelo Herndon, [in Sender Garlin's Change the World! column] Daily Worker, March 13, 1934
1934: Angelo Herndon - A Leader of the Unemployed - Tells his Own Story, Part I; Part II, Labor Defender, April and May 1934
1934: Body Wracked, Head Unbowed, Angelo Herndon Asks News of Workers' Struggles and Soviet Union, Myra Page
1934: Will We Allow Lynch Justice to Kill Our Brave Comrade Angelo Herndon?, Myra Page
1934: Angelo Herndon's Own Story of Treatment in Fulton Jail, Part I; Part II, Dail Worker, June 26 and 27, 1934
1934: Georgia Officals Ape Hitler Terror, Don West, Labor Defender, July 1934
1934: Amter Asks Speed to Raise Bail of $15,000 for Herndon
1934: To Free Angelo Herndon, New Masses, July 24, 1934
1934: Southern White Woman Pleads for Loans for Herndon Bail Fund, Grace Lumpkin, Daily Worker, July 25, 1934
1934: Only 24 Hours Left to Save Herndon. Davis Calls Fight for Herndon a Fight on Fascist Terrorism, Ben Davis, Jr., Daily Worker, August 1, 1934
1934: Herndon Leaves Prison. Mass Demonstration to Greet Heroic Negro Out Under $15,000 Bail, Daily Worker, August 6, 1934
1934: Masses to Greet Herndon At Penna. Terminal Today. Workers' Organizations Led by Browder, I.L.D. to Meet Heroic Negro, Daily Worker, August 7, 1934
1934: Thousands Hail Herndon, Daily Worker, August 8, 1934
1934: Greetings by Herndon to Toilers!, Daily Worker, August 8, 1934
1934: 10,000 Cheering Negro and Whie Workers Take Over Terminal as Herndon Arrives , Edwin Rolfe, Daily Worker, August 9, 1934
1934: Herndon, Ravaged by Torture, Fights On , Cyril Briggs, Daily Worker, August 9, 1934
1934: Harlem Throng Greets Herndon as Symbol of Revolutionary Unity of Black and White, Cyril Briggs, Daily Worker, August 17, 1934
1934: 14,000 at Sacco-Vanzetti Memorial Pledge to Free Herndon and 9 Boys, Cyril Briggs, Daily Worker, August 24, 1934
1934: George Schuyler Does His Bit to Aid Lynchers, Cyril Briggs, Daily Worker, August 27, 1934
1934: A Hero and a Judas Confront Each Other: Herndon vs. Schuyler , Cyril Briggs, Daily Worker, September 8, 1934
1934: Angelo Herndon Leaves Prison on $15,000 Bail Raised by I.L.D., Southern Worker, September 1934
1934: Labor Defender Editorial: Herndon Must Stay Free!, Labor Defender, September 1934
1934: Angelo Herndon Urges Build Mass Paper!, Southern Worker, October 1934
1934: I Know the Might of Mass Protest, Angelo Herndon, Labor Defender, November 1934
1935: "I Have No Illusions": An Interview with Tom Mooney, Angelo Herndon, Labor Defender, January 1935
1935: 20 Years on the Chain Gang? Angelo Herndon Must Go Free!, Elizabeth Lawson
1935: 20 Years on the Chain Gang?, Labor Defender, August 1935
1935: On Behalf of Angelo Herndon, Alfred Hirsch, New Masses, August 20, 1935
1935: They Fight for Us. Angelo Herndon and Mother Bloor Must Have Our Support, Sasha Small, The Working Woman, September 1935
1935: New Masses Editorial: "Ready to Give His Life -"
1935: Herndon is Back in Atlanta, Joseph North
1935: United Front Opens Herndon's Jail, Joseph North
1936: Let Us Be United, Angelo Herndon, Champion of Youth, June 1936
1936: For Freedom's Cause, Angelo Herndon, Champion of Youth, July 1936
1936: elect HERNDON to albany, Angelo Herndon, Labor Defender, October 1936
1936: Herndon Wins Review by U.S. Supreme Court, Daily Worker, November 24, 1936
1936: Daily Worker Editorial: Herndon Decision Marks Victory for Civil Rights, Daily Worker, November 25, 1936
1936: Daily Worker Editorial: Victory for Herndon Means a Victory for Negro People, Daily Worker, November 30, 1936
1936: It's Herndon Day Over the Nation, Daily Worker, November 30, 1936
1937: We Have Them on the Run, Mary Mack, Labor Defender, January 1937
1937: An Appreciation [of Angelo Herndon], Chester A. Arthur, Jr., Labor Defender, February 1937
1937: Negro Youth of Southland Maps Its Fight for Rights, Angelo Herndon, Daily Worker, February 18, 1937
1937: Labor Defender Editorial: Angelo Herndon vs. the Supreme Court, Labor Defender, March 1937
1937: "You Cannot Kill the Working Class", Angelo Herndon
1937: Let Me Live, Angelo Herndon
1937: Let My People Live, [review of Herndon's Let Me Live] James W. Ford, The Communist, April 1937
1937: Court Frees Angelo Herndon
1937: Herndon Free After Nearly Five Years, Sasha Small, Daily Worker, April 27, 1937
1937: Herndon Calls Ruling a Blow at Jim Crow, Daily Worker, April 27, 1937
1937: Daily Worker Editorial: The Herndon Victory, Daily Worker, April 27, 1937
1937: Herndon Tells Press How It Can Happen, Art Shields, Daily Worker, April 27, 1937
1937: First Herndon Lawyer Hails the Decision, Daily Worker, April 27, 1937
1937: Herndon Talks at Convention Rally Sunday , Daily Worker, April 27, 1937
1937: Herndon is Free!, Joseph North
1937: Communist Party is Legal, [on Herndon decision] William O'Neale, Southern Worker, May 15, 1937
1937: Congratulations [to the I.L.D.] on the Herndon Victory, five Congressmen and other leaders and activists, Labor Defender, June 1937
1937: "I am Free and I am Happy", Angelo Herndon Champion of Youth, Summer 1937
1937: The Scottsboro Boys. Four Freed! Five to Go!, Angelo Herndon
1937: The Road to Liberation for the Negro People. An Appeal by Angelo Herndon et al
1937: The Shame of America, Angelo Herndon, Labor Defender, October 1937