Reddit reviews Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age

I second Origins. It's a must-read that helps open ones eyes to the legacy effects that decisions made just four or five generations ago can have on our current society. When you start placing current and recent events in a similar frame of reference as the book forms, you start to realize there is still a large amount of bias with the usual winners and losers.

Along those same race-driven non-fiction lines, I also suggest "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" about Dr. Ossian Sweet both before, during, and after the trial for defending his home and family against a white mob. It won the National Book Award for Nonfiction in 2004.

I encourage you to read a book called “
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age”:

https://www.amazon.com/Arc-Justice-Civil-Rights-Murder/dp/0805079335

You want to read this:

http://www.amazon.com/Arc-Justice-Civil-Rights-Murder/dp/0805079335

I go through books like some people go through water.

• January-April 2011 was my supernatural quarter. I tended to go in groups, and starting at book 1 - I went as far as I could.
  Jan-April: Sookie Stackhouse, Kerrlyn Sparks Vamps, Immortality Bites, MaryJanice Davidson's Undead, Mercy Thompson, Garnet Lacy, Richelle Mead's Kincaid, Katie MacAlister's Aisling Grey, Silver Dragons & Light Dragons series.
  
• May-August 2011 was my classics quarter. Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, The Count of Monte Cristo, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, The Picture of Dorian Gray and To Kill a Mockingbird.
  
• September-December 2011 is my crime quarter. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker, Chasing the Devil, Arc of Justice, The Murder of the Century. Right now I'm reading Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher.
  
  (As you may notice, Jan-April was the period where I was least busy with school. These last couple of months have been brutal with classes, so my extracurricular reading has slowed dramatically.)