The Lakestown Rebellion
Novel by Kristin Lattany
Foreword by Sandra Adell

The fifth title in Coffee House Press's acclaimed Black Arts Movement Series.

Originally founded by runaway slaves, Lakestown, New Jersey is a black community that finds itself on the precarious edge of progress. When plans for a new highway threaten the heart of Lakestown but spare its wealthy white neighbors, its citizens draw upon the tradition of the trickster to thwart the construction and preserve their town. In a series of harrowing and hilarious episodes, the people of Lakestown face corruption and power with bravery and ingenuity. Based on real life events, The Lakestown Rebellion presents grassroots activism at its finest, with a deft critique of the power-that-be. Extraordinarily relevant today, this 1978 novel takes a hard but humorous look at the politics behind "urban renewal."

Novels available in the Coffee House Press Black Arts Movement Series:

• Echo Tree: the Collected Short Fiction of Henry Dumas
  by Heny Dumas, Edited and with a Foreword by Eugene B. Redmond, Critical Introduction by John S. Wright
• The Cotillion or One Good Bull Is Half the Herd
  by John Oliver Killens
• Bird at My Window
  by Rosa Guy
• dem
  by William Melvin Kelley
• Captain Blackman
  by John A. Williams