Arc of Justice by Kevin Boyle

Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age by Kevin Boyle


This book is the Great Michigan Read book for 2012. It is about a Black family who moved into a white neighborhood in Detroit in 1925. Dr. Osian Sweet gathered relatives and friends in the house to protect it from the White mob outside. Shots were fired, and a White man died. Sweet, his wife, and friends were all arrested and charged with murder.

A serious event in the Civil Rights movement and in Michigan.

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