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People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago
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Title: People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago
Author: Joe Allen
ISBN: 9781608461264
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 328
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher 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 the
compelling 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.
Author: Joe Allen
ISBN: 9781608461264
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2011
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 328
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher 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 the
compelling 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.
