TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vine,Phyllis
TI  - One man's castle: Clarence Darrow in defense of the American dream 
SN  - 0066214157
AV  - KF224.S8 V56 2004
U1  - 305.8/00973 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - New York
PB  - Amistad
KW  - Sweet, Ossian,
KW  - Darrow, Clarence,
KW  - Darrow, Clarence.
KW  - Trials (Murder)
KW  - Michigan
KW  - Detroit
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Civil rights
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - fast
KW  - Trials
KW  - Trial and arbitral proceedings
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Map on lining paper; Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-314) and index; 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
N2  - Publisher's description: This tautly told story steps back to a time when Detroit's boosters described their city as one of the most cosmopolitan in the world. It was also a city in which tensions between blacks and whites seemed manageable. Yet all that changed in 1925, when a black family named Sweet bought and moved into a house in a white neighborhood. What began with mothers bringing their children to gawk and stare soon became an angry mob of men, some of them from the local KKK, with stones. The violence that ensued landed Ossian Sweet, a doctor from the "talented tenth," and others from his family in jail and compelled the NAACP -- which had taken up the Sweets' case -- to hire famed attorney Clarence Darrow, who had just finished defending the plaintiff in Tennessee v. John Scopes. Darrow's defense led to one of the most incendiary courtroom dramas in the history of the United States. The outcome was a triumph of cooperation that transcended race in the name of justice
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