Frank Fried joined the Socialist Workers Party as a teenager in Chicago. Following World War II, SWP members were involved in the effort to end segregation at the “White City” amusement park and later in the “Hickman case,” the story or which is told in Joe Allen’s People Wasn’t Made to Burn. Fried left the SWP and became an active supporter of the socialist magazine, American Socialist. After it folded, he continued to promote various socialist projects until his death.
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