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Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
Arc of Justice A Saga of Race Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age
Author: Kevin Boyle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz, speakeasies, and assembly lines 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. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly sho...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780739452066
ISBN-10: 0739452061
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 415
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Publisher: Henry Holt & Col
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, Audio CD
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