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fourteenth street: a chicago story (in English)
Abraham H. Miller Ph. D.
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fourteenth street: a chicago story (in English) - Miller Ph. D., Abraham H.
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Synopsis "fourteenth street: a chicago story (in English)"
Avrahmel Mielnick is a precocious fourteen-year-old yeshiva student with an IQ that is off the charts and a strange proclivity for burning down garages, especially those belonging to people who torment him. Caught in the maze of racial transition that encompassed Chicago's Lawndale during the early 1950s, Avrahmel's once-secure and predictable world begins to come apart as he and his teenage friends become pawns in a conflict between Chicago's political machine attempting to stop the growth of black political power and a black leadership increasingly growing impatient with the pace of the city's acquiescence to its demands for recognition. Although a work of fiction, Fourteenth Street is inspired by real people and real events. It is the story of a tempestuous time in our urban history that saw the racial transformation of America's Northern cities. This is a story told in the rage and violence of teenagers, black and white, Jew and gentile, culminating in violence, murder, and fire. Witnessing the murder of a black friend, Avrahmel must overcome the calculated apathy of the political structure not to seek prosecution. To achieve justice that knows no racial boundaries, Avrahmel ultimately calls on his religious sense of duty and puts himself in harm's way to challenge a corrupt political system's attempt to demean a life because it was the wrong color. The events that inspired this work led to a controversial and precedent-setting legal decision.
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