THE ANGELO HERNDON CASE AND SOUTHERN JUSTICE. by Martin, Charles…

THE ANGELO HERNDON CASE AND SOUTHERN JUSTICE.

Edition: First printing.

Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1976. dj. Hardcover first edition - A detailed and well-researched study of this important, but neglected, 1930s free speech case: Herndon, a young black communist party organizer, "articulate & politically astute", was charged with violating a 1869 Georgia insurrection statute. In 1937, after a 5 year legal battle, the U.S. Supreme Court declared the statute unconstitutional. Photographs, bibliography, index. 234 pp. ISBN: 0-8071-01745.

Condition: Very near fine in a very good dustjacket (price-clipped, some rubbing to the dj.)

Book ID: 25807
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