Allen Joe - People Wasn't Made to Burn : A True Story of Housing,

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The item is a book Paperback
The Author Name is Allen Joe
The Title is People Wasn't Made to Burn : A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago

Condition New

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New Store Stock
Content Language - English
Category - HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, I
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Criminals & Outlaws
TRUE CRIME / Murder / General


Product Description -
In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for a tragic fire that took the lives of four of his children on Chicago 's West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his crime, helped win Hickman 's freedom. With a true-crime writer 's eye for suspense and a historian 's depth of knowledge, Joe Allen unearths thecompelling story of a campaign that stood up to Jim Crow well before the modern civil rights movement had even begun. As deteriorating housing conditions and an accelerating foreclosure crisis combine to form a hauntingly similar set of circumstances to those that led to the Hickman case, Allen 's book restores to prominence a previously unknown story with profound relevance today.

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