Angelo Herndon and the Radical Politics of Free Speech w/ Randall Kennedy | The Nation Podcast
Angelo Herndon was a Black coal miner turned Communist activist who was repeatedly “arrested, convicted of vagrancy, and incarcerated” for his efforts to educate and mobilize workers. In 1932, he helped organize an interracial protest against a county decision to cut off relief for the poor. But it wasn’t simply the protest that led to his chain-gang sentence — it was Herndon’s possession and distribution of Communist literature, which authorities used to charge him with inciting insurrection.
Herndon’s prosecution, and the wrongful conviction that followed, ultimately gave rise to Herndon v…
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