{"product_id":"9781608461264","title":"People Wasn't Made to Burn: A True Story of Race, Murder, and Justice in Chicago","description":"\u003cbr\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.\u003cp\u003eWith a true-crime writer’s eye for suspense and a historian’s depth of knowledge, Joe Allen unearths the\u003cbr\u003ecompelling story of a campaign that stood up to Jim Crow well before the modern civil rights movement had even begun.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs 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","brand":"Haymarket Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47031351804144,"sku":"9781608461264","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781608461264_p0.jpg?v=1763833622","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781608461264","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}