Iron City

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."

• Author
• Lloyd L. Brown

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 288

• Publisher
• Northeastern University Press

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9781555532062

• Release date
• 1994