The Chicago Trilogy: A City Going Up in Flames with Frank Joseph
Frank Joseph is the award-winning author of the Chicago Trilogy, three novels, To Love Mercy, To Walk Humbly, and To Do Justice, that tell the story of a city torn apart by racial turmoil at mid century. As a white boy growing up on Chicago's South Side, Frank lived through the disruption of a racially changing neighborhood and the "white flight" that followed. Later, as an Associated Press journalist, he covered the '60s riots firsthand.
In this episode, Frank shares what it was like growing up as race became an inescapable presence in his childhood, what it felt like to cover an inner-city…
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