Ray Henderson is an eighteen-year veteran of Pennsylvania's steel mills, a former mill grievance man and NAACP chapter president. He knew better than most that, when the steel mills shut down, many African-American lives also were shut down-and shut out of the sentimental parade in the media that followed the demise of the industry. Determined to tell the story of African-American steelworkers, he turned to his high school friend Tony Buba, director of Voices from a Steeltown and Lightening Over Braddock. Together they made this extraordinary documentary which ranks among the best oral histories, a painfully eloquent statement on racism in America. Aging steelworkers, men and women, movingly tell a tale of an industry that was rigorously segregated as recently as the 1970s. Even the unions played a role in keeping black steelworkers marginalized in grueling, degrading "Negro jobs." But these same workers ultimately played an important role in the Civil Rights movement, and the new laws they helped create were just beginning to work for them when the blast furnaces belched out their last.