5/26/2023 0 Comments Family Properties by Beryl Satter![]() ≻eryl Satter, author of Family Properties: Race, Real Estate, and the Exploitation of Black Urban America The outraged community that united to support Hickman is a refreshing reminder of people's power to organize for change.” Hickman's story illustrates the toxic nature of racial segregation and economic exploitation. The nightmarish tragedy that befell the Hickman family there, as well as the actions of the dedicated activists who fought to save Hickman's life by revealing the institutional foundations of that tragedy, are vividly depicted in Joe Allen's important and moving history. "James Hickman was one of the hundreds of thousands of black Mississippians to move to Chicago in the 1940s. ≺lex Heard, author of The Eyes of Willie McGee A stark look into a past of big city racism and poverty that we shouldn't forgetand an important contribution to the history of social justice in America.” ![]() ![]() "In a remarkable feat of historical excavation and taut storytelling, Joe Allen tells the incredible story of James Hickman, an African-American man who struck back after a black Chicago slumlord and arsonist decimated his family and nearly destroyed his life. John Pilger, author of Freedom Next Time "What I appreciate about Joe Allen's work is that he demonstrates as a historian the power of informationmeticulous, distilled, coherent, principled.” ![]()
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