Search Results: the angelo herndon case and southern by charles h martin

LSU Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. Hardcover. xv, 234p., preface, epilogue, selected bibliography, index, footnotes, b&w photo section, previous owner's name to front free endpaper, very good condition in a very edgeworn, rubbed and price-clipped dj.

Louisiana State Univ Pr, 1976. hardcover. Good. 9x6x1. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket. Book is in vastly better condition than the stock image depicts. Jacket has minimal wear around the edges and corners with a single small scrape on front of jacket. A very small tear at the top of the spine of the jacket is almost invisible as the book comes neatly wrapped in a brodart archival cover.

Louisiana State University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Baton Rouge:: Louisiana State University Press,, 1976.. Hardcover first edition -. Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the dj.). First printing. A detailed and well-researched study of this important, but neglected, 1930s free speech case: Herndon, a young black communist party organizer, "articulate & politically astute", was charged with violating a 1869 Georgia insurrection statute. In 1937, after a 5 year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the statute unconstitutional. Photographs, bibliography, index. 234 pp.

LSU Press, Baton Rouge, 1976. First edition. Large octavo. Publisher's cloth. Photographs. Fine in a good only dustwrapper, now in a new protective mylar cover. Surprisingly scarce study of Angelo Herndon (1913-1997), Black labor organizer and Communist Party activist. Herndon was convicted and imprisoned in Georgia in 1933 for attempting to incite insurrection in the wake of his organizing a successful-and unusual for the time-interracial demonstration for relief to the unemployed during the Great Depression.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. First edition. 234pp. Illustrated from black and white photographs. Fine in a near fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight toning.

Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. Presumed first edition/first printing. Hardcover. Very good/Good. xv, [1], 234 pages. Illustrations. Footnotes. Selected Bibliography. Index. Price clipped. DJ, in a plastic sleeve, has some wear, soiling, and edge tears/chips. The author was a historian on the faculty of the University of Alabama. Angelo Braxton Herndon (May 6, 1913 - December 9, 1997) was an African-American labor organizer arrested and convicted for insurrection after attempting to organize black and white industrial workers in 1932 in Atlanta, Georgia. The prosecution case rested heavily on Herndon's possession of "communist literature". He traveled from Kentucky to Georgia and solicited blacks and whites alike for membership in an integrated Communist Party of Atlanta. In July 1932, Herndon organized a hunger march and demonstration at the courthouse in Atlanta. On July 11, he checked on his mail at the Post Office and was arrested by two Atlanta… Read More