The Ossian Sweet house, though private, remains a historic site in Detroit.
Photo by Andrew Jameson
“It has all the elements of a great story. I mean, really fascinating figures. … I’m from Michigan, from Detroit, and it’s a place I care an enormous amount about. It was a chance to write about a place I love. It’s not the most flattering picture of Detroit, but I tried to give the most honest one.”
Author Kevin Boyle, on his book “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in Jazz Age”.
LANSING, MI –The 2011-12 Great Michigan Read is now underway, featuring “Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age”, by Detroit native Kevin Boyle.
Written by Detroit native Kevin Boyle, “Arc of Justice” tells the story of African American Dr. Ossian Sweet and the chain of events that occurred after he purchased a home for his family in an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925.