People Wasn't Made to Burn by Joe Allen (Paperback Book)

Name: People Wasn't Made to Burn by Joe Allen (Paperback Book)
Brand: Haymarket Books

Haymarket Books

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.\nWith a true-crime writer 's eye for suspense and a historian 's depth of knowledge, Joe Allen unearths the\ncompelling story of a campaign that stood up to Jim Crow well before the modern civil rights movement had even begun.\nAs 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.\n\nPeople Wasn't Made to Burn\nA True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal Mail tracked services.\n;