Brown, Lloyd L.

LLOYD L. BROWN was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He became a labor organizer in the early 1930s, participating in the organization of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO). He was Managing Editor of the Weekly New Masses and an associate editor of the cultural monthly Masses and Mainstream. He died in 2003. ALAN WALD is Professor in the English Department and Program in American Culture at the University of Michigan, and author of Exiles from a Future Time (2002). RICHARD YARBOROUGH, editor of the Northeastern Library of Black Literature, is Associate Professor of English at the Univer...