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

Name: Arc of Justice A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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ISBN: 9780805071450

ISBN-10: 0805071458

ISBN-13: 9780805071450

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Kevin Boyle

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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 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…

Book details

List price: $26.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Publication date: 9/7/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

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.



Prologue: America: 1925



Where Death Waits



Ain't no Slavery no More



Migration



Uplift me, Pride



White Houses



The Letter of Your Law



Freedmen, Sons of God, Americans



The Prodigal Son



Prejudice



Judgment Day


Epilogue: Requiescam


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index