Angelo Herndon

Eugene Angelo Braxton Herndon (born May 6, 1913 in Wyoming, Ohio; died December 9, 1997 in Sweet Home, Arkansas) was a labor organizer and Communist political activist who was convicted of insurrection in Atlanta, Georgia in 1932.

Angelo was the son of Paul Herndon, a miner who had moved with his wife, Hattie, to Ohio from Alabama. After his father's death, Herndon left home at age 13 to work as at the mines in Lexington, Kentucky. Five years later he continued to the Birmingham District, where he was employed by the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company in Docena. He attended a downtown rally held by the Unemployed Council and reacted strongly to a placating speech given by Oscar Adams.