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Arc of Justice : A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

ISBN: 9780805079333 | 0805079335

Edition: 1st
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Pub. Date: 5/1/2005

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz, speakeasies, and assembly lines and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctorgrandson of a slavehad made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own. 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 home. And so it begana chain of events that brought Americas greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow,... MORE into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweets murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet familys journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweets story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his eras changing times.

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.

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.�Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

Prologue: AMERICA: 1925	1	(12)
One: WHERE DEATH WAITS	13	(31)
Two: AIN'T NO SLAVERY NO MORE	44	(26)
Three: MIGRATION	70	(32)
Four: UPLIFT ME, PRIDE	102	... MORE(31)
Five: WHITE HOUSES	133	(37)
Six: THE LETTER OF YOUR LAW	170	(27)
Seven: FREEDMEN, SONS OF GOD, AMERICANS	197	(32)
Eight: THE PRODIGAL SON	229	(31)
Nine: PREJUDICE	260	(40)
Ten: JUDGMENT DAY	300	(37)
Epilogue: REQUIESCAM	337	(10)
NOTES	347	(50)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS	397	(6)
INDEX	403

Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, is the author of The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968. A former associate professor at the University of Massachusetts, he is also the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
He lives in Bexley, Ohio.

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