Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

Why read it

• You will see how one family's ordeal became a national test case for lawyers fighting Jim Crow in the courts
• You will understand why so many families left the South by train, and what they feared and hoped for on the way
• You will understand how rumor and fear spread through a white neighborhood when word came that a Black family was moving in

Who it is for

• Someone trying to understand why housing still divides American cities
• A person whose grandparents moved north and never explained why
• A law student who wants to see a courtroom argument in action

Contents

1. AUTHOR’S NOTE
2. PROLOGUE AMERICA: 1925
3. ONE WHERE DEATH WAITS
4. TWO AIN’T NO SLAVERY NO MORE
5. THREE MIGRATION
6. FOUR UPLIFT ME, PRIDE
7. FIVE WHITE HOUSES
8. SIX THE LETTER OF YOUR LAW
9. SEVEN FREEDMEN, SONS OF GOD, AMERICANS
10. EIGHT THE PRODIGAL SON
11. NINE PREJUDICE
12. TEN JUDGMENT DAY
13. EPILOGUE
14. REQUIESCAM

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