shined a light on the stressors which made up the mindset of even successful African-Americans in the 1920’s. It upheld their rights to protect their lives and homes with force if necessary. The Arc of Justice, a 2004 book by Kevin Boyle about the events, won the National Book Award.
An ordinary red-brick house on Garland Avenue in Detroit. Curie, Du Bois, Darrow, and Murphy, some of the profound names of the Jazz Age came together in the case of Henry Sweet. The ordinary comingled with the extraordinary—the Sweet case is my Trial of the Month for April.