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"When housing segregation was born"
Broker Bryant's "Martin Luther King, rest in peace my brother"  about him sneaking out as a boy in the 1960's to watch a Ku Klux Klan rally, reminded me of a book "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age" by Kevin Boyle. 
Ossian Sweet, the main character in this true story was haunted by seeing a lynching as a child in Florida.  This was pre- Martin Luther King, the teens and twenties... The majority of the story takes place in Detroit but Sweet went to college in Ohio at Wilberforce University, which describes itself as" "The oldest private African-American university in the United States" on it's website.  Sweet attended medical school at Howard University in Washington D.C. Boyle's book really took me back into time and on a tour of America in an era of expansion.
Kevin Boyle wrote "Housing segregation is so common today that it may almost seem natural to many people. But it wasn't always that way. There was a moment in time when segregation was created, and people fought against it. And this story is about that moment in time."
Boyle won the National Book Award (non-fiction) in 2005 for 'Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and ... more

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