{"product_id":"people-wasnt-made-to-burn-a-true-story-of-housing-race-and-murder-in-chicago-paperback","title":"People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eJoe Allen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e With a true-crime writer's eye for suspense and a historian's depth of knowledge, Joe Allen unearths the\u003cbr\u003e compelling story of a campaign that stood up to Jim Crow well before the modern civil rights movement had even begun.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoe Allen is a frequent contributor to the \u003ci\u003eInternational Socialist Review\u003c\/i\u003e and a long-standing social justice fighter, involved in the ongoing struggles for labor, abolition of the death penalty, and against the Iraq war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 328\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 8 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 08, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45966454227141,"sku":"9781642593754","price":26.71,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0757\/6718\/5605\/files\/dp4xvSuCimGzRnaO_Da3Mw.webp?v=1774250638","url":"https:\/\/selloorium.com\/products\/people-wasnt-made-to-burn-a-true-story-of-housing-race-and-murder-in-chicago-paperback","provider":"Selloorium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}