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"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…
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2 editions- Paperback · English · 2007Let Me Live (Class : Culture)University of Michigan Press · 424 pages · 9780472031993
- Other · English · 1937Reprint Services Corp · 409 pages · 9780781281782
African American communistsBiographyRace relationsHistoryUnited states, biographyAfrican AmericansCivil rightsCrimes against