Biography
Felton Wimbley was a Black Atlanta worker and friend of Angelo Herndon. In his 1937 autobiography, Herndon says police jailed Wimbley while trying to locate Herndon and repeatedly beat him when he refused to disclose his friend’s whereabouts. Herndon recounts obtaining Wimbley’s release by telephoning police while impersonating the superintendent of the Atlanta Plow Works, then seeing him at home that evening with a bruised and swollen face and body. This is an attributed first-person account of political coercion through actual jail confinement; it does not establish a statutory charge, conviction, precise custody dates or total time served. The surrounding account concerns Atlanta organizing in 1932, but no exact year or day is entered from that narrative placement. Source: Angelo Herndon, Let Me Live (1937), printed pages184–185, PDF pages192–193, https://www.marxists.org/archive/herndon/1937/let-me-live.pdf#page=192
