Bibliograph

People wasn't made to burn, a true story of race, murder, and justice in Chicago, Joe Allen

Type

Label

People wasn't made to burn, a true story of race, murder, and justice in Chicago, Joe Allen

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

People wasn't made to burn

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Joe Allen

Sub title

a true story of race, murder, and justice in Chicago

Summary

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. Those who witnessed the Great Recession's deteriorating housing conditions and accelerating foreclosure crisis will discover a hauntingly similar set of circumstances contributing to the Hickman case-giving this little-remembered story profound relevance in today's political atmosphere and the tension surrounding rampant wealth and racial inequality

Target audience

adult

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