02665cam a2200397 i 4500 2050803273 TxAuBib 20250319120000.0 241116s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9781324036548 hardcover $37.99 1324036540 hardcover $37.99 (OCoLC)1472115109 TxAuBib rda Snyder, Brad, 1972-, author. You can't kill a man because of the books he reads : Angelo Herndon's fight for free speech / Brad Snyder. You cannot kill a man because of the books he reads. Angelo Herndon's fight for free speech. First edition. New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2025] ©2025. xv, 318 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index,. "The story of a young, Black Communist Party organizer and the landmark case that made him a civil rights hero. 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." -- Goodreads. 20250319. Herndon, Angelo, 1913-1997. Freedom of speech. Civil rights. fast Discrimination in law enforcement United States History. TXKIP