One Man's Castle
Subtitle: Clarence Darrow in Defense of the American Dream
Edition: 1st edition
Publisher: Amistad
Published: March 30, 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780066214153
Subjects: Detroit (Mich.); Trials (Homicide); History - General History; Darrow, Clarence,; Trials (Murder); United States - General; African Americans; History: American; History; History - U.S.; Trials, litigation, etc; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Detroit; Anthropology - Cultural; History / United States / General; Michigan; 20th century; Sweet, Ossian,; 1857-1938; 1895-1960; Civil rights
First sentence: When he was seven years old, Ossian Sweet witnessed a lynching.
Table of contents: title: Prologue; 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; title: Epilogue : After the trials