Ossian Sweet bought a house in an all white neighborhood. Arc of Justice was a Pulitzer Prize Award finalist in History in 2005 and the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.īoyle’s story of the police investigation and subsequent courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial form an unforgettable tapestry of history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s. So began a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, to Sweet’s defense.īoyle is a professor of history at Ohio State University. A mob gathered outside his house, shots rang out and Sweet, or one of his defenders, accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave, had successfully escaped the ghetto and moved to a home in a previously all-white neighborhood. The introduction of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for jobs in assembly lines, and racial tensions flared with members of the Ku Klux Klan. In 1925, Detroit swung to the beat of jazz and men congregated in speakeasies. Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle is an electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that ignited a civil rights struggle while dividing a city.
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