Category - Non Fiction / History
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 3 months ago
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Ships From - Texas
Est. Publication Date - Sep 2004
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The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself--resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal giant Clarence Darrow and the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
ISBN: 9780805071450
Publisher Description
Follows the 1925 murder trial of African-American doctor Ossian Sweet, who was accused of murdering a white person during a mob attack on his home, and includes a history of the Sweet family and a por...
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