One man's castle : Clarence Darrow in defense of the American dream / Phyllis Vine.

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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 Sw...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vine, Phyllis, 1945-
Language:English
Published: New York : Amistad, 2005.
Subjects:
Sweet, Ossian, > 1895-1960 > Trials, litigation, etc.
Darrow, Clarence, > 1857-1938.
Trials (Murder) > Michigan > Detroit.
African Americans > Civil rights > History > 20th century.
Genre:
Trials, litigation, etc.
Physical Description:xii, 349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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
  • Postscript: July 22, 2004.