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Arc of justice
a saga of race, civil rights, and murder in the Jazz Age
By Boyle, Kevin
- ISBN
- 978-0-80507-145-0
- Publisher
- New York : H.Holt, 2004.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on October 1, 2004
Detroit native Boyle (history, Ohio State Univ.) re-creates the racial thinking and tensions that produced the politics, prosecution, and personal tragedy of People v. Ossian Sweet . The 1925 Michigan murder case tried a black physician for shooting and killing a white man in a mob trying to run him out of the home he and his wife had just bought in a previously...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
