Jordanstown

Josephine Winslow Johnson | 1937-01-01

African Americans

In the novel, a handful of people in a small town struggle to push back against their poverty and to provide better jobs and opportunities for themselves.This uprising is led by Allen Craig, who has managed to scrape together the funds to purchase the local newspaper, and through that medium he begins to criticize the local powers-that-be, encouraging hope in the ones struggling during these hard times as society is still reeling from the Depression, while exciting resentment from those he attacks.