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:
“What if this cursed hand
Were thicker than itself with brother’s blood,
Is there not rain enough in the sweet heavens
To wash it white as snow?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)