Jack Hamann—Journalist
Sylvia Ewing—Producer, Eight Forty-Eight
Forty-three African American soldiers, a quarter of them from Chicago, were accused of lynching an Italian prisoner of war in August 1944. But new evidence points to their innocence, as told in a book chronicling the case.
Book Information
On American Soil: How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II
By Jack Hamann (Algonquin Books, 2005)
Music Button: Memphis Slim and His Orchestra, “Train Is Comin',” Mercury Blues 'n' Rhythm Story: 1945–1955 (Polygram, 1996)