PEOPLE WASN'T MADE TO BURN: A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago

In 1947, James Hickman shot and killed the landlord he believed was responsible for the fire that took the lives of his four children on Chicago's West Side. But a vibrant defense campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his crime, helped win his freedom. A story of a campaign that stood up to Jim Crow well before the modern civil rights movement had begun. Illus.