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Two shots rang out from the Fletcher's home. One struck a teenager in the thigh. Police arrested the Fletchers--they would move out the next day. It was in this violent summer of 1925 that a black doctor named Ossian Sweet purchased a home at 2905 Garland, in an all-white middle-class neighborhood.
Named for Ossian Hart, an African-American governor of Florida during the Reconstruction era, Ossian Sweet was born in Orlando on October 30, 1895. His mother, Dora, was related to a group of African Methodist Episcopal ministers who had helped fan the hopes of blacks in Florida after the Civil War. The family moved to the town of Bartow, in ...
The Story Behind the Trial. "I have to die like a man or live a coward." One night in September, 1924, the lives of Dr. Ossian Sweet and his family changed forever. But this change affected more than one single Detroit family; it rippled through the entire city of Detroit. After this night, the city would never be the same.
15 de feb. de 2021 · Now, the history of the Sweet family will be shared in a new documentary that connects what happened in 1925 to the present. Daniel Baxter grew up in the Ossian Sweet House. Baxter is an elections expert who consulted for the City’s Elections Department in 2020, when a predominantly white mob stormed the TCF Center as votes in the ...
Sweet Trials: 1925-26 Defendants: Ossian and Henry SweetCrimes Charged: Conspiracy to commit murder and murderChief Defense Lawyers: Clarence Darrow, Arthur Garfield Hays, and Thomas ChawkeChief Prosecutors: Robert M. Toms and Lester S. Source for information on Sweet Trials: 1925-26: Great American Trials dictionary.
Ossian Sweet became the oldest of what would be a family of ten children because his older brother, Oscar, died eight days after Ossian was born. Oscar Sweet had been named in honor of Ossian Hart’s brother. The Sweets later moved to Bartow, Florida after Ossian’s father purchase a plot of land there. 12 The town of Bartow, located about
20 de ago. de 2020 · The trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet along with ten family members and friends for murder after a mob attacked his Detroit home caught the nation’s attention in 1925-1926. This trial and a re-trial of Ossian Sweet’s younger brother Henry exposed racial tensions in northern cities in the years following the…
