Blood in the Promised Land

<p><i>It is 1943 and World War II rages on battlefields across the globe. But in America another bloody divisive battle rages as stepped-up wartime production lures legions of poor blacks from the rural South to defense jobs in the North-to a so-called promised land of opportunity. The wartime migration has a profound impact transforming America's cities into both arsenals for democracy and cauldrons of racial conflict.</p><p>Set against this conflicted backdrop two men embark on separate journeys to begin a new chapter in their lives. Roosevelt Turner is a poor black migrant who flees the Jim Crow South to work in Pittsburgh's bustling steel mills. Jacob Perlman is a Jewish physician forced to escape Nazi-occupied Europe. As each seeks to escape his harrowing past and rebuild his life in a country struggling to fulfill its own promise their paths unwittingly cross during a violent racial conflict. In an instant their destinies are reshaped forever.</p><p>As Roosevelt and Jacob are thrust into the crucible of the civil rights movement they courageously join forces in an effort to crush a terrorist hate group and exorcise the ghosts from their pasts.</i></p>