Ossian Sweet ( /ˈɒʃən ˈswiːt/; October 30, 1895 – March 20, 1960) was an American physician. He is most notable for his self defense in 1925 of his newly-purchased home in a white neighborhood against a mob attempting to force him out of the neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan, and the subsequent acquittal by an all-white jury of murder charges against him, his family, and friends who helped defend his home, in what came to be known as the Sweet Trials.
Read more about Ossian Sweet: Arc of Justice, Malice Aforethought: The Sweet Trials, Legacy
Famous quotes containing the word sweet:
“The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth: and he that is wise will not abhor them. Was not the water made sweet with wood, that the virtue thereof might be known?”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus 38:4-5.