Let me live

Date:

1937

URL at Partner site:

http://georgiaencyclopedia.org/file/5632

DLG URL:

https://dlg.usg.edu/record/nge_ngen_m-11014

Subject:

Books--United States, African American men, Handcuffs, Captivity narratives--United States, African American communists, Autobiography--United States, and Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997. Let me live

Spatial coverage:

United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018

Medium:

covers (gathered matter components)

Description:

Image of the cover of the book Let Me Live, written by Angelo Herndon. The cover depicts a shirtless African American man whose hands are restrained above his head by handcuffs.||Angelo Herndon, arrested in 1932 as a Communist insurrectionist while organizing workers in Atlanta, spent five years in the Georgia penal system before the U.S. Supreme Court granted his freedom in 1937. Herndon chronicled his experiences in Let Me Live, which was published by Random House in 1937.

Holding Institution:

New Georgia Encyclopedia

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/UND/1.0/