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People Wasn't Made to Burn
Joe Allen
其他書名
A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago
出版Haymarket Books, 2011
主題Biography & Autobiography / Criminals & OutlawsHistory / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)History / Social HistoryLaw / Legal HistorySocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black StudiesSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / GeneralSocial Science / Sociology / UrbanTrue Crime / GeneralTrue Crime / Murder / General
ISBN16084612629781608461264
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=e_RtSTiInCAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.