Angelo Herndon

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Angelo Herndon, a communist organizer who spent five years in prison on the charge of insurrection, sits in a replica prison cell in 1935. After the U.S. Supreme Court overturned his conviction, Herndon purchased the replica and traveled around the South to display it as a living exhibit.

Courtesy of Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, University of Georgia Libraries, Southern Photographs Collection, Hargrett Library.

Angelo Herndon

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