African American Radical Labor Memoir and Legal Struggle in Angelo Herndon’s Let Me Live, 1937
Herndon, Angelo. Let Me Live, 1937, a radical autobiographical account of African American labor organizing and state repression during the Jim Crow era. The work addresses racialized legal control and labor suppression through Herndon’s arrest, prosecution, and legal defense under Georgia’s insurrection law. Herndon’s narrative records his 1932 arrest for.....
