Date: April 14,2005 | ISBN-10: 0,805,079,335 ISBN-13 :978-0805079333 | Version: Reserved
The sensational murder trial, the city divided, and ignited an exciting story of the civil rights struggle
In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fighting. The advent of the automobile brought workers from around the world competing for manufacturing jobs, and regular outbreaks of three K party tensions rise in power and violence. Ossian Sweet slaves, the grandson of a proud black doctors long climb from the slums to own home previously all white neighborhood. But after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house, all of a sudden, shots rang out: Sweet, or advocate one accidentally killed a threat to one of the whites of their lives and their homes.
Thus began the chain of events, the largest U.S. lawyer Clarence Darrow, into the fray, and turned into a controversial symbol of equality sweet. Historian Kevin Boyle woven police investigation and court drama Sweet murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of historical narrative, recorded in the United States in the 1920s and touching re-create the sweet family volatile journey from slavery by large migration of the middle class. Ossian Sweet’s story, rich and sharp capture here, a man trapped in his era changing era battle is an epic story.
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