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...bleak, jittery summer of 1932 a 19-year-old Negro communist organizer named Angelo Herndon led a hunger march of unemployed on Atlanta's courthouse. A few days later he was arrested, held for eleven days without charges. Then Atlanta prosecutors dusted off a Reconstruction law providing the death penalty for "any attempt ... to induce others to join in any combined resistance to the lawful authority of the State." In all its 66 years no one had ever been convicted under that statute. Chiefly on the evidence of communist pamphlets found in his possession, a Georgia jury found...
Overnight, obscure Angelo Herndon became a front-page communist hero, his freedom a prime Red Cause. Released on $7,000 bail provided by the International Labor Defense, he marched up & down the land addressing Red rallies while I. L. D. lawyers fought his case through the courts. Twice Georgia's Supreme Court affirmed his sentence. The U. S. Supreme Court once sent the case back to Georgia because of improper presentation, then took jurisdiction...
Last Monday the Supreme Court set Angelo Herndon free. Justice Roberts, speaking for the majority, declared that the Georgia law passed in 1871 was too vague and "necessarily violates the guarantees of liberty embodied in the fourteenth amendment." Although added fuel to the heated debate on the President's proposal for the reorganization of the judiciary was not exactly what the situation called for, the Angelo Herndon decision seems to crystallize the mugwump position which the President's followers take. They admit the imperative need for an independent judiciary in such a case as this, but that doesn...
...Before 150 undergraduates in the courtyard of Yale's Pierson College appeared a small, mild-faced Negro. .No Yaleman but a collectivist who was sentenced to a Georgia chain gang three years ago for possessing radical literature and is now out on bail, Communist Angelo Herndon gravely announced: "We love our country so much that we are not willing to see her plunge into another...
Referring to the charges of rape which have been brought against the boys of the Scottsboro case, Herndon said, "If you really want to know who has been committing rape, look to the light color of my skin and that of my fellow American Negroes. Negros have not gone out and raped their innocent white slave masters...