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2 de sept. de 2015 · Arc of Justice. Posted September 2, 2015. A young African-American doctor named Ossian Sweet purchased a home in a predominantly white part of Detroit in the summer of 1925. Sweet knew the risks: Similar attempts by African Americans to move into white neighborhoods had been met with overt resistance, even violence.
Ossian Sweet, his nine relatives and friends, and his wife, were about to be defended by Clarence Darrow. A most remarkable case was about to begin. It encompassed more than the question of whether Ossian Sweet headed a premeditated conspiracy to kill an innocent resident of his new neighborhood.
14 de sept. de 2019 · In the master bedroom a few feet away, 94 years ago this week, Dr. Ossian Sweet lay down, with a white mob outside of his home. The crowd was enraged that a black man would move his family into a ...
4 de oct. de 2016 · 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. Although Sweet originally. planned to move his family into the new home in July, he postponed the. move for two months in the hopes that racial tensions might ease.
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.
Soon after moving to Detroit, Ossian Sweet met Gladys Mitchell, a striking, sensitive middle-class black woman. The two married in 1922, then traveled to Europe. Anxious to learn about the effect of radium on cancer, Ossian worked in Paris with Madame Currie. Gladys arrived in Paris pregnant.
20 de jun. de 2015 · Ossian Sweet was born in 1895 in Bartow, Florida. He was the grandson of a former slave who lived in the Jim Crow South. When he was five, he watched from the bushes as a black man was burned at the stake. Years later, at his murder trial, Sweet would recall the smell of kerosene, the crowd taking pieces of the charred flesh as souvenirs.
