Arc of Justice
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Prologue Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6 Chapter 7 Chapter 8 Chapter 9 Chapter 10 Epilogue
Themes
All Themes Prejudice, Segregation, and Society Justice and Civil Rights Self-Defense, Race, and Ownership The American Dream Progress and Social Change
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Characters
All Characters Ossian Sweet Clarence Darrow Walter White Frank Murphy Gladys Sweet Henry Sweet Otis Sweet Dora DeVaughn Henry Sweet, Sr. Iva Sweet John Smith Norton Schuknecht Inspector Robert McPherson Julian Perry Cecil Rowlette Charles Mahoney Robert Toms Thomas Chawke James Weldon Johnson Arthur Garfield Hays Edward Carter W. E. B. Du Bois Reinhold Niebuhr William Sanders Scarborough William Davis Vollington Bristol John Fletcher Fleta Mathies Alexander Turner Lester Moll Leon Breiner Ray Dove Eric Houghberg John Latting Joe Mack Norris Murray Hewitt Watson Leonard Morse Charles Washington Edmund DeVaughn Gilla DeVaughn Remus DeVaughn Hubburt DeVaughn Ossian Hart Fred Rochelle Josephine Goman Philip Adler
Terms
All Terms African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church Color Line Great Migration Jim Crow Ku Klux Klan Lynching Modernism NAACP Nativism Reconstruction Redlining Talented Tenth
Symbols
All Symbols Houses
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Arc of Justice

by

Kevin Boyle
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In Arc of Justice, houses (especially in white neighborhoods) represent participation in the American Dream. They also become the focal point of the contest between the forces of integration and segregation in American society…

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