
Arc of Justice
A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age
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Kevin Boyle
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National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2004
The grandson of a slave, Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his family to an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925. When his neighbors attempted to drive him out, Sweet defended himself, resulting in the death of a white man and a murder trial for Sweet. There followed one of the most important (and shockingly unknown) cases in Civil Rights history. Also caught up in the intense courtroom drama were legal giant Clarence Darrow and the newly formed National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).Highly esteemed history professor, author and editor Kevin Boyle was presented with the National Book Award for this stunning literary achievement. Arc of Justice artfully captures a tumultuous period in American history as it tells a shocking story of violence and racial strife.
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Editor and investigative reporter Jefferson Morley has been widely published in national periodicals and is the author of the critically acclaimed nonfiction work Our Man in Mexico. An eye-opening look at Washington’s first race riot, Snow-Storm in August also offers revealing profiles of Arthur Bowen, the slave blamed for the riot, and “Star Spangled Banner” lyricist Francis Scott Key, a defender of slavery who sought capital punishment for Bowen.
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An interesting
- De BDHumbert en 08-27-18
De: Jefferson Morley
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The Lynching
- The Epic Courtroom Battle That Brought Down the Klan
- De: Laurence Leamer
- Narrado por: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Duración: 10 h y 19 m
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On a Friday night in March 1981, Henry Hays and James Knowles scoured the streets of Mobile in their car, hunting for a black man. The young men were members of Klavern 900 of the United Klans of America. They were seeking to retaliate after a largely black jury could not reach a verdict in a trial involving a black man accused of the murder of a white man. The two Klansmen found 19-year-old Michael Donald walking home alone.
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Very Readable
- De Jean en 06-10-16
De: Laurence Leamer
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You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
- A Personal History of Our Times
- De: Howard Zinn
- Narrado por: David Strathairn
- Duración: 8 h
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Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than 30 years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war. A former bombardier in World War II, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful voice for justice. Although he's a fierce critic, he gives us reason to hope that by learning from history and engaging politically, we can make a difference in the world.
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mind blowing
- De WILLIAM en 11-27-19
De: Howard Zinn
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Freedom Summer
- The Savage Season That Made Mississippi Burn and Made America a Democracy
- De: Bruce Watson
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 14 h y 37 m
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In the summer of 1964, with the civil rights movement stalled, seven hundred college students descended on Mississippi to register black voters, teach in Freedom Schools, and live in sharecroppers' shacks. But by the time their first night in the state had ended, three volunteers were dead, black churches had burned, and America had a new definition of freedom.
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The Long Hot Summer
- De Roy en 08-01-10
De: Bruce Watson
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A Few Red Drops
- The Chicago Race Riot of 1919
- De: Claire Hartfield
- Narrado por: J. D. Jackson
- Duración: 3 h y 58 m
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On a hot day in July 1919, five black youths went swimming in Lake Michigan, unintentionally floating close to the white beach. An angry white man began throwing stones at the boys, striking and killing one. Racial conflict on the beach erupted into days of urban violence that shook the city of Chicago to its foundations. This mesmerizing narrative draws on contemporary accounts as it traces the roots of the explosion that had been building for decades in race relations, politics, business, and clashes of culture.
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Excellent book!
- De Eric Leafblad en 06-03-18
De: Claire Hartfield
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Buried in the Bitter Waters
- The Hidden History of Racial Cleansing in America
- De: Elliot Jaspin
- Narrado por: Don Leslie
- Duración: 10 h y 44 m
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"Leave now, or die!" From the heart of the Midwest to the Deep South, from the mountains of North Carolina to the Texas frontier, words like these have echoed through more than a century of American history. The call heralded not a tornado or a hurricane, but a very unnatural disaster: a manmade wave of racial cleansing that purged black populations from counties across the nation.
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a compelling read with a disappointing conclusion
- De Gregory en 12-16-07
De: Elliot Jaspin
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Parting the Waters
- America in the King Years 1954-63
- De: Taylor Branch
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi, Janina Edwards
- Duración: 45 h y 10 m
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Hailed as the most masterful story ever told of the American civil rights movement, Parting the Waters is destined to endure for generations. Moving from the fiery political baptism of Martin Luther King, Jr., to the corridors of Camelot where the Kennedy brothers weighed demands for justice against the deceptions of J. Edgar Hoover, here is a vivid tapestry of America, torn and finally transformed by a revolutionary struggle unequaled since the Civil War.
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- De Judith Princz en 05-15-19
De: Taylor Branch
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The Mayor of Castro Street
- The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
- De: Randy Shilts
- Narrado por: Marc Vietor
- Duración: 16 h y 10 m
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Known as The Mayor of Castro Street even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal life, public career, and final assassination reflect the dramatic emergence of the gay community as a political power in America. It is a story full of personal tragedies and political intrigues, assassinations at City Hall, massive riots in the streets, the miscarriage of justice, and the consolidation of gay power and gay hope.
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Excellent historical perspective of an activist.
- De Chris en 04-14-15
De: Randy Shilts
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Devil in the Grove
- Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America
- De: Gilbert King
- Narrado por: Peter Francis James
- Duración: 17 h y 53 m
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Arguably the most important American lawyer of the 20th century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the US Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and to cost him his life. In 1949, Florida's orange industry was booming, and citrus barons got rich on the backs of cheap Jim Crow labor with the help of Sheriff Willis V. McCall, who ruled Lake County with murderous resolve....
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the fight for civil rights
- De Jean en 01-17-14
De: Gilbert King
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American Lightning
- Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century
- De: Howard Blum
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
- Duración: 10 h y 33 m
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It was an explosion that reverberated across the country—and into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America. On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times Building buckled as a thunderous detonation sent men, machinery, and mortar rocketing into the night air. When at last the wreckage had been sifted and the hospital triage units consulted, twenty-one people were declared dead and dozens more injured. But as it turned out, this was just a prelude to the devastation that was to come.
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very interesting popular history
- De D. Littman en 11-28-08
De: Howard Blum
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Triangle
- The Fire That Changed America
- De: David Von Drehle
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 10 h y 54 m
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On March 25, 1911, as workers were getting ready to leave for the day, a fire broke out in the Triangle Shirtwaist factory in New York's Greenwich Village. Within minutes it spread to consume the building's upper three stories. Firemen who arrived at the scene were unable to rescue those trapped inside: their ladders simply weren't tall enough. People on the street watched in horror as desperate workers jumped to their deaths. It was the worst disaster in New York City history.
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Interesting but Loong
- De JAS en 04-21-18
De: David Von Drehle
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Beale Street Dynasty
- Sex, Song, and the Struggle for the Soul of Memphis
- De: Preston Lauterbach
- Narrado por: Mirron Willis
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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Following the Civil War, Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee, thrived as a cauldron of sex and song, violence and passion. But out of this turmoil emerged a center of black progress, optimism, and cultural ferment. Preston Lauterbach tells this vivid, fascinating story through the multigenerational saga of a family whose ambition, race pride, and moral complexity indelibly shaped the city that would loom so large in American life.
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Narration Speed...It's Half the Battle
- De B. Westman en 03-21-17
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- Barbara C Houston
- 11-06-15
History written with the dynamic prose of fiction.
The characterization of the primary characters with their aspirations and weaknesses is one of two major reason that the book works so well. The other reason is the relevance of the issue of segregation and redlining areas; this practice still defines far too many American cities.
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- Dyvette K Collins
- 07-03-16
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this is a great story of the black struggle in America. the struggle must continue
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- Lynette.O. Benjamin
- 12-09-18
great read
the Book was great and i love the narrator...and very educational and informative....All people of color need to hear/rwad this book
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- Gary Grossenbacher
- 03-06-17
A great book
A great book with so many famous historical people. Well written and an excellent narration. Thank you.
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- Anthony Freyberg
- 10-26-08
Defending Your Life
This is a beautifully written and highly interesting story of a prominent, black physician and his courageous efforts to defend the lives and property of his family against the virulent and violent racism of Detroit in the early part of the 1920s. It is an amazing and harrowing tale all the more so because it actually happened. This was a very important case which ultimately involved some of this country illustrious legal and political legends; Clarence Darrow, Frank Murphy and Arthur Garfield Hays among them. Its a poignant and powerful story that culminates in a gripping court room drama. The carefully and detailed narrative which serves the story so well for the most part does at times overburden the reader with too much detail. This is especially true in the early chapters of Part 1 and I found myself fast forwarding through a lot of the text hoping to get back to the main story line. That being said, it is indeed an excellent audio book wonderfully narrated by Lizan Mitchell.
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- jameyvalentine
- 11-02-09
outstanding
This book amazed me; it read like fiction. An excellent source of information on the start of the NAACP and a riveting personal story. Very well narrated.
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- Alex Vest
- 04-06-19
Slow narration
The narration of this book is very slow. I was listening to it on 1.5 speed or faster most of the time. The chapters are also mislabeled. There is only 10 chapters, not over 30.
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- Laurie
- 12-04-09
Long, but informative
This book took me forever to complete, but I did. Well read by narrator and historically informative - I feel like I know so much more now about African-American history, from post-civil war through the 1920's. However, at times so many historical sidetracks were taken that it was easy to forget what was going on in the story, some repetition, and ending was abrupt. Not a page turner at all, but highly educational.
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- Anonymous User
- 05-20-23
Narrator is Great!
Loved the way the story was told. It could NOT have been arranged any better for desired effect. The female narrator countered my errant perception that female narrators add a soft touch that can detract from a tough story.
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- DeWayne Cody
- 11-03-23
Chapters
The audible chapters aren't at the same place as the actual book chapters, which is really annoying when reading for school and skipping around. It's difficult to know where you are/how much you've read
The book was a good and interesting read though.
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