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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Library Journal Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Boyle, Kevin, 1960-     Subjects     Sweet, Ossian, 1895-1960 -- Trials, litigation, etc.     Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.     Trials (Murder) -- Michigan -- Detroit.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.     United States -- Race relations.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Boyle, Kevin, 1960-       by title:      Arc of justice : a s...       by call number:      345.7302523 B792a     Search the Web     Boyle, Kevin, 1960-     Sweet, Ossian, 1895-1960 -- Trials, litigation, etc.     Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.     Trials (Murder) -- Michigan -- Detroit.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.     Blacks -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.     Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.     United States -- Race relations.       MARC Display

Arc of justice : a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age / Kevin Boyle. by Boyle, Kevin, 1960- Henry Holt and Co., [2005], c2004. Call #: 345.7302523 B792a Subjects Sweet, Ossian, 1895-1960 -- Trials, litigation, etc.   Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.   Trials (Murder) -- Michigan -- Detroit.   Blacks -- Civil rights -- Michigan -- Detroit -- History -- 20th century.   Blacks -- Civil rights -- United States -- History -- 20th century.   Detroit (Mich.) -- Race relations.   United States -- Race relations. ISBN:  9780805079333 (pbk) Description:  415 p., 8 unnumbered p. of plates : ill., portraits ; 22 cm. Notes:  "An Owl book." Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-395) and index. Summary:  "An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor -- grandson of a slave -- had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times."--Publisher. Awards:  National Book Award for Nonfiction, 2004. Genre:  True crime. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Central Library Adult Nonfiction 345.7302523 B792a Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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