 Angelo Herndon

Angelo Braxton Herndon (May 6, 1913 in Wyoming, Ohio – December 9, 1997 in Sweet Home, Arkansas) was an African-American labor organizer arrested and convicted of insurrection after attempting to organize black and white industrial workers in 1932 in Atlanta, Georgia.The prosecution case rested heavily on Herndon's possession of "communist literature", which police found in his hotel room.