{"product_id":"b005ci22k6","title":"People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis story of a grief-stricken man's murder of a landlord is nothing less than a reinvention of the true crime genre ( The Nation ).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e[A] remarkable book . . . a horrific portrait of the inhumane conditions in which blacks were forced to live in post-WWII Chicago. — Chicago Tribune\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67924248854773,"sku":"YSL51632","price":7.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/8774\/8597\/files\/81UXdVv5pAL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793672623","url":"https:\/\/www.newbooks.store\/products\/b005ci22k6","provider":"NewBooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}