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African Americans Civil rights History 20th century African Americans Civil rights Michigan Detroit History 20th century Criminal justice, Administration of United States Darrow, Clarence 1857-1938 Detroit (Mich.) Race relations Discrimination in criminal justice administration United States Discrimination in law enforcement United States Social justice United States Trials (Murder) Michigan Detroit United States Race relationsMays, Kyle
Summary: "Mays explores the relationship and differences between the Black American quest for freedom and the Native American struggle for sovereignty in the U.S"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Beacon Press 2021
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Summary: The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself--resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
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Summary: Follows the 1925 murder trial of African-American doctor Ossian Sweet, who was accused of murdering a white person during a mob attack on his home, and includes a history of the Sweet family and a portrait of his attorney, Clarence Darrow.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2011
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Summary: "America likes to tell itself that it inhabits a postracial world, yet nearly every empirical measure-- wealth, unemployment, incarceration, school segregation-- reveals that racial inequality has barely improved since 1968, when Richard Nixon became our first 'law and order' president." Hayes examines the surge in crime that began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1990s, and the unprecedented...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Summary: "An Emmy Award-winning news anchor and New York Times best-selling author argues that there are really two Americas--a Colony and a Nation,"--NoveList.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2017
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twayne Publishers, c1996. 1996