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Vine, Phyllis. One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow In Defense Of The American Dream

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(032204) Vine, Phyllis. One Man's Castle: Clarence Darrow In Defense Of The American Dream. New York: Amistad, 2004. 1st Edition. Hardcover. 8vo. 337 pages. Fine in Very Good+ DJ. B&W Photographs. DJ has a 1/2 inch closed repaired tear at top edge of front panel, near spine . Examines the case of Ossian Sweet (1895-1960), a black man who moved into a white neighborhood in Detroit, MI in 1925. Sweet and some of his family members ended up in jail after violent racial confrontations. The NAACP took up the case for the Sweet family and hired Clarenc Darrow as a defense lawyer ISBN: 0066214157 (Sweet, Ossian, Darrow, Clarence, Murder Trials, African Americans, Civil Rights, Detroit, Michigan)