Angelo Herndon

The Negro Quarterly, Volume 1, Number 2, Summer 1942 is a historical publication edited by Angelo Herndon. This book is a collection of articles, essays, and poems written by African American writers during the early 1940s. The publication aims to showcase the literary and artistic talents of African Americans and to promote their cultural heritage. The topics covered in this book range from politics, history, and social issues to music, literature, and art. Some of the notable contributors to this book include Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, and Zora Neale Hurston. The book provides a unique insight into the African American experience during the World War II era and serves as an important historical document. Additional Contributors Are L. D. Reddick, Richard Wright, Kumar Goshal, And Many Others. This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.

Let Me Live tells the remarkable story of Angelo Herndon, a coal miner who worked as a labor organizer in Alabama and Georgia in the 1930s. Herndon led a racially integrated march of the unemployed in 1932 and was subsequently arrested when Communist Party literature was found in his bedroom. His trial made only small headlines at first, but eventually an international campaign to free him emerged, thanks to the efforts of the Communist Party and of labor unions interested in protecting the right to organize in the South. Herndon was finally set free by the U. S. Supreme Court, with the help of well-known leaders including C. Vann Woodward, Thurgood Marshall, A. Philip Randolph, and Whitney North Seymour, Sr. Written while Herndon was in prison, Let Me Live tells the story behind his arrest and his struggle through the courts. It also describes his early life as a young boy in poverty, as a laborer in the Kentucky mines, and as a construction gang worker and traces the birth and development of his passion for the Communist Party. Originally published in 1937, this is the first new edition of Let Me Live since 1969, when Howard N. Meyer rescued it from obscurity. The book features texts from the Georgia and U. S. Supreme Court decisions, the text of Herndon’s speech, and newspaper editorials from the era. A substantive and thought-provoking introduction by Marlon B. Ross of the University of Virginia sheds light on this unique story and its importance to our understanding of the intersection of race and class in America—past and present. “A book which every thoughtful American may do well to read. It is moving and challenging as the story of one man’s life and the question of one man’s fate.” —New York Times