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FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING of Angelo Herndon's famous autobiography. FINE CONDITION in GOOD/VERY GOOD dustjacket protected in Mylar. Original red publisher's cloth with top stain black, frontispiece of Angelo Herndon, illustrated with three black and white photographs. Fine in a very good dust jacket with light rubbing and chipping. Let Me Live is the autobiographical account of Angelo Herndon, an African American labor organizer whose arrest and imprisonment in Georgia under a Reconstruction-era insurrection law drew national attention to issues of race, class, and justice in Depression-era America. Released on bail by "$15,000, raised in pennies, nickels, dimes by workers and sympathizers throughout the world," he wrote Let Me Live while awaiting the Supreme Court's decision, which ultimately granted him his freedom. Herndon recounts his work organizing workers in the South, emphasizing solidarity across racial lines as a means to combat economic exploitation. He became "a symbol of all the workers, both black and white, whose lot is poverty and insecurity when they are passive, and violence and death when they resist."
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