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Kevin Boyle, author of Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, will visit Oakland University to discuss his book on the murder trial of Detroiter Ossian Sweet. Boyle's book has been chosen as the College of Arts and Sciences' Community Book.

Thursday, September 27, 2007

at Noon

Oakland Center Banquet Room B

Mr. Boyle's campus visit is sponsored by the Honors College and the Department of Rhetoric, Communication and Journalism.

For more information, see the News @ OU press release

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Full-Text Articles about race relations and the history of Detroit:*

• Gage, B. (2005). American violence. Reviews in American History, 33(2), 241-248. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from Project Muse.
• McGraw, B. (2007). Life in the ruins of Detroit. History Workshop Journal, 63, 288-302. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from Project Muse.
• Meier, A., & Bracey, J. H.,Jr. (1993). The NAACP as a reform movement, 1909-1965: "To reach the conscience of america". The Journal of Southern History, 59(1), 3-30. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from JSTOR.
• Meier, A., & Rudwick, E. (1976). Attorneys black and white: A case study of race relations within the NAACP. The Journal of American History, 62(4), 913-946. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from JSTOR.
• Murage, N. (2000). Making migrants an asset: The Detroit Urban League-Employers Alliance in wartime Detroit, 1916 to 1919. Michigan Historical Review, 26(1), 66-93. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from Infotrac Academic OneFile.
• Redevelopment and race: Planning a finer city in postwar Detroit. (1997). Urban History Review, 26(1), 53. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from Infotrac General OneFile.
• Thompson, H. A. (1999). Rethinking the politics of white flight in the postwar city: Detroit, 1945-1980. Journal of Urban History, 25(2), 163-198. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from FirstSearch Electronic Collections Online.
• Wukovits, J. F. (1998). "This case is close to my heart". American History, 33(5), 26-32, 66, 68. Retrieved September 18, 2007, from Infotrac General OneFile.

Books at Kresge Library on race relations and Detroit:

• Capeci, Dominic J. Layered violence : the Detroit rioters of 1943.
• Farley, Reynolds. Detroit divided.
• Latzman, Elaine. Untold tales, unsung heroes : an oral history of Detroit's African American community, 1918-1967.
• Levine, David Allan. Internal combustion : the races in Detroit, 1915-1926.
• Thompson, Heather Ann. Whose Detroit? : politics, labor, and race in a modern American city.
• Vine, Phyllis. One man's castle : Clarence Darrow in defense of the American dream.
• Welch, Susan. Race and place : race relations in an American city.
• Widick, B.J. Detroit : city of race and class violence.
• Wolcott, Victoria. Remaking respectability : African American women in interwar Detroit.

Web sites dealing with the Ossian Sweet case:

• Defending the Home: Ossian Sweet and the Struggle Against Segregation in 1920s Detroit
• The Detroit News Rearview Mirror article: "'I have to die a man or live a coward' -- the saga of Dr. Ossian Sweet"
• Famous American Trials: The Sweet Trials, 1925 & 1926
• Home of Dr. Ossian Sweet
• metrotimes article: "Drive by History"
• National Park Service Register of Historic Places: Ossian Sweet House

*Access to full text resources from off campus is limited to current Oakland students, staff, and faculty.