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

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An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle

In 1925, Detroit was once a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from all over the world to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions continuously 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 prior to now all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered out of doors his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had unintentionally killed probably the most whites threatening their lives and homes.

And so it all started-a chain of events that brought The united states’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 The united states of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet circle of relatives’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.

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