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This 5 page paper discusses the book "Arc of Justice" about the shooting of a white man by blacks in Detroit in 1925. It argues that the acquittal of the black defendants in the subsequent trial was the correct decision, but also that they would not have been acquitted with any attorney other than Clarence Darrow defending them. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Detroit. This paper examines the book briefly and argues that Sweet was justified in his action, since he was defending his home and his life. It further argues that the
only way Sweet got a fair trial was because Clarence Darrow defended him. Discussion The late summer of 1925 was blistering hot in Detroit, adding to the citys miseries. Boyle
tells us that life was hard for most of the working people in the area, who were just hanging on by their fingernails. He writes that when it was first
founded, Detroit was "an attractive place ... a ... city made graceful by its founders French design" (Boyle, 2005, p. 13). But then the automobile boom started, and Henry
Ford moved his operations there, as did the Dodge Brothers and other car manufacturers (Boyle, 2005). The result was that factories, parts warehouses and workshops appeared all across the city,
turning it into a "great machine" (Boyle, 2005, p. 14). "Once fine buildings were now enveloped in a perpetual haze from dozens of coal-fired furnaces" (Boyle, 2005, p. 14). The
city was changing. Then Henry Ford gave his employees a massive raise, and the news went out worldwide that Detroit had well-paying jobs to offer (Boyle, 2005). This brought a
huge influx of immigrants to the city, and that made the residents nervous and fearful that they would lose their positions to the newcomers (Boyle, 2005). On Garland Avenue, where
the story takes place, it was "always a struggle to hold on. Housing prices had spiraled upward so fearfully the only way a lot of folks could buy a flat
or a house was to take on a crippling burden of debt. The massive weight of double mortgages or usurious land contracts threatened to crack family budgets" (Boyle, 2005, p.
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