Dr. Ossian Sweet was a prominent African American medical doctor who moved into an all-White neighborhood on Garland and Charlevoix on Detroit's east side.

*The year 1968 was a sad year of dismay. In April, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. Then two months later in June, presidential candidate Robert Kennedy met the same tragic fate. It ...

Dr. Ossian Sweet moved his wife and daughter to the house knowing he’d be crossing the color barrier. Like most families, he wanted to live in a better neighborhood with better schools.

It was the trial of Ossian Sweet, a Black physician, and a group of his brothers and friends. One of them had killed a member of a white mob, numbering in the thousands, ...

In this segment, we're chatting with Daniel Baxter, founder of the Dr. Ossian Sweet Foundation, as he tells us the story of the physician who moved to Detroit in the 1920s and was charged with ...

Ossian Sweet had built a successful career in Detroit in the 1920s, and decided to move his family into a new home on the city's east side, at Charlevoix Street and Garland Ave. This might have been ...

The trial of 1925 and its aftermath seemed to cast a pall over the remainder of Ossian Sweet's life. His two subsequent marriages after Gladys' death ended in divorce with no children. He also ...

The Ossian H. Sweet Foundation is aiming to open the home to the public as a museum by next fall. Baxter said he's grateful to County Executive Warren Evans for advocating for the funding.

Kevin Boyle is a Detroit native who attracted fame by telling the story of Ossian Sweet, a one-time Bartow resident. Sweet left Polk County and gained unwanted notoriety through a landmark trial ...

Two bright sons of Jewish millionaires, a Tennessee school teacher, and a black medical doctor in Detroit were the defendants in three iconic legal thrillers that personified the transformation of ...

Kevin Boyle talked about his book [Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age], published by Henry Holt and Co. Mr. Boyle used the trial of Ossian Sweet, an African ...

It was the trial of Ossian Sweet, a Black physician, and a group of his brothers and friends. One of them had killed a member of a white mob, numbering in the thousands, ...