One man's castle
Subtitle: Clarence Darrow in defense of the American dream
By: Phyllis Vine.
Edition: 1st Amistad pbk. ed.
Publisher: Amistad
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 349
Subjects: Sweet, Ossian, 1895-1960 -- Trials, litigation, etc; Darrow, Clarence, 1857-1938; Trials (Murder) -- Michigan -- Detroit; African Americans -- Civil rights -- History -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-326) and index.
Originally published: New York : Amistad, 2004.
"Now with a new postscript"--Cover.
Winner of the Great Lakes Book Award.
Table of contents: title: Florida : "Incomparable and indescribable"; title: The education of Ossian Sweet; title: Moving up; title: Getting settled; title: "Detroit the dynamic"; title: Two cities : Vienna and Paris; title: 2905 Garland Avenue; title: James Weldon Johnson and the NAACP; title: Send Walter White; title: Clarence Darrow sets the stage; title: "Nobody is molesting you"; title: Your fight, my fight; title: The night of September 9; title: His home is his castle; title: A reasonable man?; title: More than a partial victory; title: A trial fair; title: The darker brother.