| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xii, 337 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map, portraits ; 24 cm |
| Note |
Map on front lining paper. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [307]-314) and index. |
| Contents |
Prologue -- Florida: "Incomparable and indescribable" -- The education of Ossian Sweet -- Moving up -- Getting settled -- "Detroit the dynamic" -- Two cities: Vienna and Paris -- 2905 Garland Avenue -- James Weldon Johnson and the NAACP -- Send Walter White -- Clarence Darrow sets the stage -- "Nobody is molesting you" -- Your fight/my fight -- The night of September 9 -- His home is his castle -- A reasonable man? -- More than a partial victory -- A trial fair -- The darker brother -- Epilogue: after the trials. |
| Subject |
Sweet, Ossian, 1895-1960 -- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938.
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Trials (Murder) -- Michigan -- Detroit.
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African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century.
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| ISBN |
0066214157 (acid-free paper) |
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