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" One man's castle : "
Phyllis Vine.
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BL
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985866
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b740236
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| Main Entry
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Vine, Phyllis,1945-
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One man's castle : : Clarence Darrow in defense of the American dream /\ Phyllis Vine.
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| Edition Statement
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1st Amistad pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York, NY :: Amistad,, 2005.
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349 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :: illustrations, map, portraits ;; 21 cm
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0060938277
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: 9780060938277
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| Notes
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"Now with a new postscript"--Cover.
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Originally published: New York : Amistad, 2004.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
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| Contents
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Florida : "Incomparable and indescribable" -- The education of Ossian Sweet -- Moving up -- Getting settled -- "Detroit the dynamic" -- Two cities : Vienna and Paris -- 2905 Garland Avenue -- James Weldon Johnson and the NAACP -- Send Walter White -- Clarence Darrow sets the stage -- "Nobody is molesting you" -- Your fight, my fight -- The night of September 9 -- His home is his castle -- A reasonable man? -- More than a partial victory -- A trial fair -- The darker brother.
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In this buried chapter of American history, a nearly forgotten case of famed attorney Clarence Darrow comes hauntingly to the surface. In 1925 the NAACP approached Darrow to defend Ossian Sweet -- a highly respected black doctor who, after integrating an all-white neighborhood in Detroit, found himself the victim of a community attack. When Sweet and his family fought back, they were caught in a melee in which a white man was fatally shot. The trial that ensued, one of the most urgent and compelling in the nation's history, would test the basic tenets of the American Dream -- the right of a man to defend his own home. Tautly researched and harrowingly reported, One Man's Castle is an "important slice of American legal history and the history of the civil rights."
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Darrow, Clarence,1857-1938.
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Sweet, Ossian,1895-1960-- Trials, litigation, etc.
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Darrow, Clarence,1857-1938
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Sweet, Ossian,1895-1960
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African Americans-- Civil rights-- History-- 20th century.
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Trials (Murder)-- Michigan-- Detroit.
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African Americans-- Civil rights.
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Trials (Murder)
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Trials.
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Michigan, Detroit.
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| Dewey Classification
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305.8
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KF224.S8V56 2005
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