People Wasn't Made to BurnIn 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 defence campaign, exposing the working poverty and racism that led to his crime, helped win Hickman's freedom. With 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