Let Me Live
- ISBN-10
- 0472031996
- ISBN-13
- 9780472031993
- Category
- African American communists
- Pages
- 409
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Michigan Press
- Author
- Angelo Herndon
Description
"Written while Herndon was in prison, Let Me Live tells the story behind his arrest and his struggle through the courts. It also describes his early life as a young boy in poverty, as a laborer in the Kentucky mines, and as a construction gang worker and traces the birth and development of his passion for the Communist Party. Originally published in 1937, this is the first new edition of Let Me Live since 1969, when Howard N. Meyer rescued it from obscurity. The book features texts from the Georgia and U.S. Supreme Court decisions, the text of Herndon's speech, and newspaper editorials from the era. A substantive and thought-provoking introduction by Marlon B. Ross of the University of Virginia sheds light on this unique story and its importance to our understanding of the intersection of race and class in America - past and present."--Jacket.
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