STEEL at the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement...
STEEL at the Birth of the Civil Rights Movement...
In the 1950's, African-American steelworker John Henry Irons is inspired by the event of Rosa Parks' refusal to give up her bus seat to a white man; if a harmless lady seamstress such as she is able to assert her rightful position of equality, then a strapping, sinewy fellow like Irons can certainly fight for a shred of human dignity. However, the Ku Klux Klan thinks differently, and gangs up on Irons and wallops the "dignity" out of him. After Irons recovers, he realizes that he must beat the KKK at their own game, so he constructs an ebony-toned body armor and arms himself with a matching sledgehammer. Irons ventures out at night to combat the Klan--- wherever there is a night-time church-bombing or attempted lynching, the racists are up against the black-armored, weaponed avenger called STEEL.