Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (793 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0805071458 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 432 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Justice is Done" according to Edubbiey. Writing with a novelist's flair, the author expertly assembled a story about Dr. Ossian Sweet who just wants to live in a modest bungalow home in 1925 in an area of Detroit where blacks do not live. Dr. Sweet overcame great odds (he was urged to leave home at 1Justice is Done Writing with a novelist's flair, the author expertly assembled a story about Dr. Ossian Sweet who just wants to live in a modest bungalow home in 1925 in an area of Detroit where blacks do not live. Dr. Sweet overcame great odds (he was urged to leave home at 13-years-old because his parents had to continue to feed a growing brood of children) to become a physician. The story is full in historical nuggets about which I loved learning. It's full. -years-old because his parents had to continue to feed a growing brood of children) to become a physician. The story is full in historical nuggets about which I loved learning. It's full. Very good book got to know much more about the NAACP Andrew Marshall Very good book got to know much more about the NAACP legal defense fund, recommend this book. "Five Stars" according to Amazon Customer. Great book in even better condition
With a novelist's craft, Boyle opens with a compelling prologue portraying the migration of African-Americans in the 1920s to the industrial cities of the North, where they sought a better life and economic opportunity. Ossian Sweet, who moves with his young family to a previously all-white Detroit neighborhood. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. When the local block association incites a mob to drive Sweet back to the ghetto, he gathers friends and acquaintances to defend his new home with a deadly arsenal. 8 pages of b&w photos not seen by PW. From Publishers Weekly History professor Boyle (<
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. 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.. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet i