People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago by Joe Allen

People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago

Joe Allen

328 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction biography history true crime informative reflective slow-paced
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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...

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