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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...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 345.73 BOYBoyle, Kevin
Summary: "From the National Book Award winner, a masterful history of the decade that exploded America's postwar order. On July 4, 1961, the rising middle-class families of a Chicago neighborhood gathered before their flag-bedecked houses, a vision of the AmericanDream. That vision was shattered over the following decade, its inequities at home and arrogance abroad challenged by powerful civil rights...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2021
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.923 BOYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.923 BOYBoyle, Kevin
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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0252 BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 345.0252 BOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Blk BoyleSummary: Set in England in the years leading up to the First World War, Downton Abbey tells the story of a complicated community. The house has been home to the Crawley family for many generations, but it is also where their servants live, and plan, and dream, and they are as fiercely jealous of their rank as anyone. Some of them are loyal to the family and committed to Downton as a way of life, others...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016