It was American history in the making, and 59 years ago a young man out of Detroit’s Visitation High School was eager to be a part of it. That was the case during the spring of 1966 when 17-year-old ...

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At the Recorder’s Court, Murphy was the judge in the first of the Sweet trials. These trials centered around Dr. Ossian Sweet, a Black man targeted by a white mob upset he’d moved into their ...

It's an homage to the type of furnishings Dr. Ossian Sweet's wife, Gladys, planned to purchase when they moved into the house 99 years ago. But the very next night in 1925 after they moved in ...

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, that had sought to ...

One of its most well-known members is a man named Dr. Ossian Sweet. And so Kappa Alpha Psi has enjoyed an important history in the City of Detroit and they've owned their fraternity house in the ...

Ossian Sweet began his journey to Detroit in the summer of 1910, working as a dishwasher on Bob-Lo island, to help pay his way through Wilberforce College in Ohio. In 1921, Sweet had earned his ...

Massey included an image of Dr. Ossian Sweet's Garland Street home, which Sweet was forced to defend from an angry mob after moving to the white neighborhood in 1925. That altercation led to a ...

BARTOW, Fla. — L.B. Brown. Dr. Ossian Sweet. The Longworth family. Andy and Tamer Moore. Those are just a few of the notable African American figures who are buried at the Evergreen Cemetery in ...