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By Boyle, Kevin2004., Owl Book / Henry Holt and Company Call No: 973.915 BOY Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Chronicles the trial in 1925 of Dr. Ossian Sweet, his wife, and other African-Americans for the murder of Leon Breiner, a former coal miner who lived near Sweet's home.
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2005, c2004., H. Holt and Co Call No: 345.73 BOY Edition: 1st Owl Books ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights. The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising. Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home of his own in a previously all-white neighborhood. Yet just after his arrival, a mob gathered outside his house; suddenly, shots rang out: Sweet, or one of his defenders, had accidentally killed one of the whites threatening their lives and homes. And so it began-a chain of events that brought America's greatest attorney, Clarence Darrow, into the fray and transformed Sweet into a controversial symbol of equality. Historian Kevin Boyle weaves the police investigation and courtroom drama of Sweet's murder trial into an unforgettable tapestry of narrative history that documents the volatile America of the 1920s and movingly re-creates the Sweet family's journey from slavery through the Great Migration to the middle class. Ossian Sweet's story, so richly and poignantly captured here, is an epic tale of one man trapped by the battles of his era's changing times. Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.
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2022., Adolescent, Scholastic Focus Call No: HI-INT 341.6 GOL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "On December 7, 1941--'a date which will live in infamy'--the Japanese navy launched an attack on the American military bases at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The next day, President Franklin Roosevelt declared war on Japan, and the US Army officially entered the Second World War. Three years later, on December 18, 1944, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which enabled the Secretary of War to enforce a mass deportation of more than 100,000 Americans to what government officials themselves called 'concentration camps.' None of these citizens had been accused of a real crime. All of them were torn from their homes, jobs, schools, and communities, and deposited in tawdry, makeshift housing behind barbed wire, solely for the crime of being of Japanese descent. President Roosevelt declared this community 'alien,'--whether they were citizens or not, native-born or not--accusing them of being potential spies and saboteurs for Japan who deserved to have their Constitutional rights stripped away. In doing so, the president set in motion another date which would live in infamy, the day when the US joined the ranks of those Fascist nations that had forcibly deported innocents solely on the basis of the circumstance of their birth. In 1944 the US Supreme Court ruled, in Korematsu v. United States, that the forcible deportation and detention of Japanese Americans on the basis of race was a 'military necessity.' Today it is widely considered one of the worst Supreme Court decisions of all time. But Korematsu was not an isolated event. In fact, the Court's racist ruling was the result of a deep-seated anti-Japanese, anti-Asian sentiment running all the way back to the California Gold Rush of the mid-1800s. Starting from this pivotal moment, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone will take young readers through the key events of the 19th and 20th centuries leading up to the fundamental injustice of Japanese American internment. Tracing the history of Japanese immigration to America and the growing fear whites had of losing power, Goldstone will raise deeply resonant questions of what makes an American an American, and what it means for the Supreme Court to stand as the 'people's' branch of government"--Provided by the publisher.
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1991., Johns Hopkins University Press Call No: 973.921 WHI Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Analyzes the case of Emmett Till, a fourteen-year-old African-American boy from Chicago who was killed in Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman; discusses the trial and acquittal of the two men who lynched Till; and explores the social impact of the incident.
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-- Famous crimes of the twentieth centuryc2003., Chelsea House Call No: 364.973 Mar Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Crime, justice, and punishmentSummary Note: Describes some of the major crimes committed in the United States during the twentieth century and discusses the social impact of these criminal acts and the trial and punishment of the perpetrators.
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By Crowe, Chris2003., Juvenile, P. Fogelman Books Call No: 973.921 CRO Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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By Crowe, Chrisc2003., Juvenile, Phyllis Fogelman Books Call No: 364.152 3 09762 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Presents a true account of the murder of fourteen-year-old, Emmett Till, in Mississippi, in 1955.
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2002., University of Virginia Press Call No: 973.921 MET Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: The American South seriesSummary Note: Contains newspaper articles, editorials, poems, songs, interviews, essays, and memoirs that shed light on the relationship between memory and history through an examination of the case of Emmett Till, an African-American teen who was murdered in Money, Mississippi in 1955 for allegedly offending a white woman.
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2004., Rosen Publishing Group Call No: 345.73 SCH Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Great trials of the twentieth centurySummary Note: Using photos and documents this book describes the trial of nineteen men for depriving three others of their civil rights during the Mississippi Summer Project.
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By Kidd, Ronaldc2006., Pre-adolescent, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Call No: Historical fiction FIC KIDD Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her father hatches a plan to bring publicity to their small Tennessee town by arresting a local high school teacher for teaching about evolution, the resulting 1925 Scopes trial prompts fifteen-year-old Frances to rethink many of her beliefs about religion and truth, as well as her relationship with her father.
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-- Emmett Tillc2003., General, PBS Home Video PBS Home Video Call No: DVD 973.921 MUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Social StudiesSummary Note: The shameful, sadistic murder of 14-year-old Emmett Till, a black boy who whistled at a white woman in a Mississippi grocery store in 1955, was a powerful catalyst for the civil rights movement. Although Till's killers were apprehended, they were quickly acquitted by an all-white, all-male jury and proceeded to sell their story to a journalist, providing grisly details of the murder. Three months after Till's body was recovered, the Montgomery Bus Boycott began.
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2014., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 53 08996073079463 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)View cover image provided by Mackin Summary Note: Investigates the true story of the Port Chicago Navy base, which in World War II was used as a bomb-loading base for the Navy in the Pacific. Segregation was in effect, and every serviceman loading the bombs was black. When an explosion due to unsafe working conditions killed over three hundred servicemen, fifty black sailors refused to return to work until the unsafe conditions were dealt with, launching an early event in the civil rights movement.
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2014., Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 5308996073079463 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In July 1944 an explosion at a California navy base killed hundreds of sailors loading munitions. Fifty black seamen, refusing to resume work in unsafe conditions, were charged with mutiny, facing decades in jail and even execution.
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2014., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: HI-INT 940.54 SHE Edition: First edition. Availability:6 of 6 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Investigates the true story of the Port Chicago Navy base, which in World War II was used as a bomb-loading base for the Navy in the Pacific. Segregation was in effect, and every serviceman loading the bombs was black. When an explosion due to unsafe working conditions killed over three hundred servicemen, fifty black sailors refused to return to work until the unsafe conditions were dealt with, launching an early event in the civil rights movement.
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-- Port Chicago fifty2014., Juvenile, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 940.54 SHE Edition: First edtion. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents an account of the 1944 civil rights protest involving hundreds of African-American Navy servicemen who were unjustly charged with mutiny for refusing to work in unsafe conditions after the deadly Port Chicago explosion.
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-- Ringside nineteen twenty-fivec2008., Pre-adolescent, Yearling Call No: HISTORICAL F BRY Edition: 1st Yearling ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Visitors, spectators, and residents of Dayton, Tennessee, in 1925 describe, in a series of free-verse poems, the Scopes "monkey trial" and its effects on that small town and its citizens.
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2021., Scholastic Focus Call No: HI-INT 323.11 GOL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Since 1896, in the landmark outcome of Plessy v. Ferguson, the doctrine of 'separate but equal' had been considered acceptable under the United States Constitution. African American and white populations were thus segregated, attending different schools, living in different neighborhoods, and even drinking from different water fountains--so long as the separated facilities were deemed of comparable quality. However, as African Americans found themselves lacking opportunity, barred from the educational, legal, and personal resources readily available to white people, and living under the constant menace of lawless mob violence, it was becoming increasingly apparent that segregation was not only unjust, but dangerous. Fighting to turn the tide against racial oppression, revolutionaries rose up all over America, from Booker T. Washington to W. E. B. Du Bois. They formed coalitions of some of the greatest legal minds and activists, who carefully strategized how to combat the racist judicial system, picking and choosing which cases to take on and how to tackle them. These activists would not always win, in some instances suffering great setbacks, but, ever resilient, they continued to push forward. These efforts would be rewarded in the groundbreaking cases of 1952-1954 known collectively as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, in which the U. S. Supreme Court would decide, once and for all, the legality of segregation--and on which side of history the United States would stand. In this thrilling examination of the path to Brown v. Board of Education, Constitutional law scholar Lawrence Goldstone highlights the key trials and players in the fight for integration. Written with a deft hand, this story of social justice will remind readers, young and old, of the momentousness of the segregation hearings"--Provided by the publisher.
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[2012]., Universal Call No: DVD FIC LEE Edition: 50th anniversary ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Based on Harper Lee's novel about a lawyer defending a black man accused of raping a white woman. Special features included. Nominated for eight Academy Awards, winner of three including Best Actor (Peck).
