TY - SER
KW - trade unions
KW - Communist Party
KW - steel industry
KW - Black Americans
AU - Lloyd L. [Louis] Brown
AB - Lonnie James, 23, a laid-off black steelworker is falsely accused, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder of a white drugstore owner. Feeling failed by his court-appointed lawyers, Lonnie seeks the help of three black inmates jailed for being Communist Party labor organizers, who smuggle messages to an outside defense committee.
C1 - 1940
C3 - Allegheny County; Monongahela River; Pittsburgh; Downtown; Allegheny County Jail (1886); McKeesport
C4 - Literary; Labor; Black
CY - New York
LA - English
M3 - Novel
N1 - Settings are disguised as follows: Allegheny County is Monongahela County; Pittsburgh is Iron City; Allegheny County Jail (1886) is Monongahela County Jail; McKeesport is Kanesport.
N2 - Lonnie James, 23, a laid-off black steelworker is falsely accused, convicted, and sentenced to death for the murder of a white drugstore owner. Feeling failed by his court-appointed lawyers, Lonnie seeks the help of three black inmates jailed for being Communist Party labor organizers, who smuggle messages to an outside defense committee.
PB - Masses & Mainstream
PP - New York
PY - 1951
RN - Lloyd L. Brown (1913-2003), born in St. Paul, Minnesota, was a labor organizer for the Communist Party and editor of Communist publications.
EP - 255 p.
TI - Iron City
ER -