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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) HERNDON, ANGELO.
“Angelo Herndon, Negro
Communist Leader.”
8 x 10 press photograph, with caption and United Press stamps on
reverse.
Georgia, 1935
[600/800]
Angelo Braxton Herndon (1913-1997), shown here shackled from head to toe, was an
African-American labor organizer arrested and convicted under an ancient slavery period
Southern law for “insurrection.” He was seized after attempting to organize black and white
industrial workers alike in Atlanta in 1932. The law, growing out of insurrections like that of
Nat Turner in 1831, was harsh and carried a death sentence. Herndon’s case, together with
that of the Scottsboro Boys, became the rallying point for the beginnings of a modern Civil
Rights movement that would include widespread white participation. Herndon was defended by
Benjamin Davis Jr who among others and after a lengthy series of trials and hearings got him
released in 1937.
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KING, MARTIN LUTHER JR.
La Historia de Montgomery. Como 50,000
Negros Encontraron una Nueva Manera de Lograr la Justicia.
16 pages. Comic-
book format.Illustrated. Small 4to, original color pictorial wrappers.
A FINE COPY
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Montevideo, Uraguay, circa 1958:
[500/750]
FIRST SPANISH LANGUAGE EDITION
of this comic book presentation of Martin Luther King
and the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Initially produced and printed by the Fellowship for
Reconciliation in Nyack, New York in 1957, this Spanish language edition was produced in
Uraguay. While printed abroad, this was obviously an attempt to reach out to the Hispanic
population of the United States. Curiously, this translation is clumsy and at times distinctly
and unnecessarily differs from the English version.
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