Detroit - CAS Theme 2021-2022

An electrifying story of the sensational murder trial that divided a city and ignited the civil rights struggle. Arc of Justice is the winner of the 2004 National Book Award for Nonfiction.

This text focuses on the working people who, in the first three decades of the 20th century, made Detroit into one of the world's great industrial cities. Telling their stories through photographs with captions explaining its content and context, it examines the world as they lived and changed it.

Traces the rise and fall of organized labor's political power over the course of the twentieth century.

Also available as an ebook.

A Choice Magazine "Outstanding Academic Book for 1996" "Kevin Boyle has done a masterful job of identifying the unique contribution of the UAW, not only to American Liberalism, but also to the nation and to all people. As contemporary labor and society at large search for new directions, this book should be required reading."

Also available as an ebook