People Wasn't Made to Burn

A True Story of Housing, Race, and Murder in Chicago

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies, Crimes & Criminals, Murder, True Crime
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Author: Joe Allen ISBN: 9781608461325
Publisher: Haymarket Books Publication: July 26, 2011
Imprint: Haymarket Books Language: English
Author: Joe Allen
ISBN: 9781608461325
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication: July 26, 2011
Imprint: Haymarket Books
Language: English

A unique study of civil rights struggle in the North in the 1940s

A long-hidden story not previously written about

A sympathetic story as jobs, housing, and economic stability become scarce

Ben Shahn, an artist of the Social Realism art movement important in the U.S. during the Great Depression, made a series of poignant drawings for Harper’s Magazine to illustrate the 1947 Hickman murder trial. Currently on exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, we aim to include Shahn's drawings in "People Wasn't Made to Burn."

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A unique study of civil rights struggle in the North in the 1940s

A long-hidden story not previously written about

A sympathetic story as jobs, housing, and economic stability become scarce

Ben Shahn, an artist of the Social Realism art movement important in the U.S. during the Great Depression, made a series of poignant drawings for Harper’s Magazine to illustrate the 1947 Hickman murder trial. Currently on exhibition at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, we aim to include Shahn's drawings in "People Wasn't Made to Burn."

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