Iron City

A Novel

• Author(s): Lloyd Louis Brown,
• Publisher: UPNE
• Pages: 243
• ISBN_10: 1555532063
  ISBN_13: 9781555532062
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Fiction / General , Fiction / Biographical , Fiction / African American & Black / General , Literary Criticism / American / General , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies ,

Description:... Iron City is based on an actual court case and inspired by the author's experiences as a labor organizer and political prisoner. This well-crafted novel tells the story of Lonnie James, a black youth falsely convicted of-and sentenced to death for-the murder of a white businessman. From inside the “iron city” of a state penitentiary in a northern steel town, three black Communist prisoners spearhead a fight to save Lonnie James's life. In advancing the author's controversial socialist vision of black and white proletarian solidarity, Iron City unflinchingly confronts race relations in mid-twentieth-century America inside and outside prison walls.