Arc of Justice by Kevin G. Boyle6/4/2023 ![]() ![]() In these positions, he strives to advance civil rights legislation and extend of justice to all American citizens. He maintains his personal popularity through the trials and their aftermaths, rising to serve as the governor-general of the Philippines, governor of Michigan, attorney general of the United States, and Justice of the Supreme Court. He’s able to appeal to so many different groups because of his promise to bring fairness, justice, and transparency to a people who desperately need a “new deal.” In the Sweet trials, Murphy strives for justice, balanced against a nuanced understanding of the political stakes in a city where the Ku Klux Klan is trying to use nativism and fearmongering to win the mayoral election. Ossian Sweet, an African-American physician who faces murder charges after trying to defend his home in an all-white neighborhood from mob violence. Murphy builds a coalition of powerful Irish American interests, and he also earns support from Black and immigrant people on Detroit’s east-side wards. Kevin Boyle's Arc of Justice depicts the racial turmoil in Detroit in 1925 through the story of Dr. ![]() As a young lawyer and Democratic Party activist, Murphy wins election to the bench of Detroit’s Recorder’s Court (which is responsible for criminal prosecutions) on a promise to wrest control of the court from a conservative majority. Frank Murphy is the judge who presides over both Sweet trials. ![]()
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