Brad Snyder: You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads
You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads
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- Angelo Herndon's Fight for Free Speech
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- W. W. Norton & Company, 02/2025
- Einband: Gebunden
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9781324036548
- Umfang: 336 Seiten
- Erscheinungstermin: 4.2.2025
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In 1932, eighteen-year-old Black Communist Party organizer Angelo Herndon was arrested, had his rooms illegally searched, and his radical literature seized. He was charged with attempting to incite insurrection-a crime punishable by death. You Can't Kill a Man Because of the Books He Reads chronicles Herndon's five-year quest for freedom during a time when Blacks, white liberals, and the radical left joined forces to define the nation's commitment to civil rights and civil liberties.Herndon's champions included the young, Black Harvard Law School-educated attorney Benjamin J. Davis Jr.; the future historian C. Vann Woodward, who joined the interracial Herndon defense committee; the white-shoe New York lawyer Whitney North Seymour, who argued Herndon's appeals; and literary friends Ralph Ellison, Langston Hughes, and Richard Wright. With their support, Herndon reinvented himself as one of the most famous Black men in America and inspired a constitutional right to protest.