[dighton]

Clarence Darrow -- not ordinarily a favorite of mine -- once represented some black people who'd defended themselves, with firearms, against a white mob. In that case he was on the side of the angels.

Maybe someone can refresh my memory as to particulars of that case. Needless to say, it was long before the 1960s.

[dighton]

Oops, I should have pinged you too in #23.

[general_re]

Maybe someone can refresh my memory as to particulars of that case.

I'm betting you're thinking of the Sweet trials...

Personally, I've always liked the (probably apocryphal) story about Darrow's trick cigar ;)