Black Fire ― The Making of an American Revolutionary

Black Fire is the story of Nelson Peery's battle to find a political voice as an African American who comes of political age during the Depression and World War II. Peery shows us an American history we have rarely glimpsed--the world as seen through the eyes of a young black man in the 1930s and '40s--and the extraordinary resourcefulness and camaraderie that enable him and others like him to survive the hardships of the Depression and World War II.