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THE OSSIAN SWEET CASE: Spurred by division, Detroit native ...
Detroit Free Press, MI - Sep 19, 2004
... Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black physician with a European education, dared to move his family into an all-white neighborhood, on Garland at Charlevoix, on Detroit's ...
Tragedy on trial

New York Newsday, NY - 22 hours ago
... The case: In September 1925, Ossian Sweet, a physician who years before was among the wave of black Southern migrants seeking a better life in the North ...

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Christian Science Monitor Deadly shots heard around suburbia
Christian Science Monitor, MA - Sep 20, 2004
When a black physician, Ossian Sweet, moved his wife and child into their new house on Garland Avenue in a white neighborhood of Detroit, he knew there could ...

Book Explores Murder Case That Sparked Early Segregation Battle
Newswise (press release) - Sep 13, 2004
... The story involves Dr. Ossian Sweet, a black physician who moved to Detroit after growing up in Florida, graduating from Wilberforce University in Xenia, Ohio ...
Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the ...
International Herald Tribune, France - Aug 31, 2004
Ossian Sweet was 5 years old when he hid in the Florida bushes as a howling white mob set fire to a black teenager. When he was ...

The human side of civil rights
Sun-Sentinel.com, FL - Sep 5, 2004
... Kevin Boyle. Henry Holt. $26. 415 pp. Ossian Sweet was 5 years old when he hid in the Florida bushes as a howling white mob set fire to a black teenager. ...

Historian's 1926 Detroit story captures depth of racial enmity
Houston Chronicle, TX - Sep 4, 2004
... One of the Negroes wanting a nice home with a yard for himself, his wife Gladys and their infant daughter was Ossian Sweet. Age ...

'Arc of Justice': I Swear It Was in Self-Defense
New York Times, NY - Sep 10, 2004
... Inside was a young black doctor named Ossian Sweet who had dared to breach the color line by moving into a white part of town with his wife and child. ...

Book shows no straight road in civil-rights journey
Oregonian, OR - Sep 5, 2004
A case in point is the previously unwritten story of Dr. Ossian Sweet, a diffident black physician whose uncharacteristically bold move to a white neighborhood ...

Former Governor Tops Lecture Series
The Ledger, FL - Sep 7, 2004
... literature. Author Phyllis Vine will talk Feb. 10 about Bartow native Ossian Sweet's story, covered in her recent book. On March ...