Angelo Herndon, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAngelo Herndon
African American labor organizer
Date of Birth: 06-May-1913
Date of Death: 09-Dec-1997
Profession: trade unionist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Taurus 
About Angelo Herndon
- Angelo Braxton Herndon (May 6, 1913 in Wyoming, Ohio – December 9, 1997 in Sweet Home, Arkansas) was an African-American labor organizer arrested and convicted of 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", which police found in his hotel room.Herndon was defended by the International Labor Defense, the legal arm of the Communist Party, which hired two young local attorneys, Benjamin J.
- Davis Jr.
- and John H.
- Geer, and provided guidance.
- Davis later became prominent in leftist circles.
- Over a five-year period, Herndon's case twice reached the United States Supreme Court, which ruled that Georgia's insurrection law was unconstitutional, as it violated First Amendment rights of free speech and assembly.
- Herndon became nationally prominent because of his case, and Southern justice was under review.
- By the end of the 1940s he left the Communist Party, moved to the Midwest and lived there quietly.
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