Black Fury

TitleBlack Fury
Year of Publication1966
Publication TypeNovel
Number of Pages or Episodes394 p.
LanguageEnglish
AuthorsMusmanno, Michael
PublisherFountainhead Publishers
CityNew York
Keywordsactivists; coal industry; Communist Party; Congress of Industrial Organizations; immigrants; Italian Americans; John Barcoski (1889-1929); John L. Lewis (1880-1969); labor strikes; Philip Murray (1886-1952); Polish Americans; Roman Catholics; Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC); Tony (W. A.) Boyle (1904-85); trade unions; United Mine Workers; William Z. Foster (1881-1961)
Abstract

A novelization of the 1935 film of the same name about John Barcoski, a coal miner and union activist, who was beaten to death by private company police.

Author Biography

Michael Musmanno (1897-1968), a prolific writer and colorful jurist, was born the son of Italian immigrants in Stowe Twp., Allegheny County. As a young man he worked in mines and mills before entering college. He earned degrees from George Washington University, Georgetown Law School, American University, and the University of Rome. He served as a lawyer (for the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti); a Pennsylvania politician; a U. S. Navy officer during World War II; an Allegheny County judge; and as a justice of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court from 1952 until his death. He also prosecuted Nazi war criminals as Presiding Justice at the Nuremburg International War Crimes Tribunal. Musmanno is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

Time

1920s