Milton Herndon (March 9, 1908 – October 13, 1937) was an African-American U.S. national guardsman, steelworker, labor organizer and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War where he was section leader of the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion in the Abraham Lincoln brigade.

[1] He was killed in action along with his entire machine gun company while supporting their advance into Fuentes de Ebro,[2] a small town southeast of Zaragoza.

Milton Herndon was born into a working-class family in a majority white village north of Cincinnati called Wyoming, Ohio,[3] where they were subjected to racial discrimination.

[1]On May 8, 1937, Herndon departed for Spain aboard the American Importer to join the International Brigades, going by the alias "Milton Braxton".

While executing this command, Herndon and his entire team were killed by a hail of long-range machine gun fire.