THREAD:
#OTD Sept 9, 1925: Ossian Sweet, prominent black Detroit doctor, is arrested on murder charges after one man was killed when shots were fired into an angry white mob who surrounded his home and threw rocks b/c Dr Sweet moved into an all-white neighborhood.
Pt.1
#History
#OTD Sept 9, 1925: Ossian Sweet, prominent black Detroit doctor, is arrested on murder charges after one man was killed when shots were fired into an angry white mob who surrounded his home and threw rocks b/c Dr Sweet moved into an all-white neighborhood.
Pt.2
#History
“Throughout 20th century Detroit, most of the African American population resided in “Black Bottom”.

#OTD Sept 9, 1925: Dr Ossian Sweet is arrested on murder charges for defending his home from an angry white mob after moving into an all-white neighborhood.
Pt.3
#History
“Dr Sweet had a right to purchase & protect his property w/o interference, just as if he were a white man”

#OTD Sept 9, 1925: Dr Ossian Sweet is arrested on murder charges for defending his home from an angry white mob after moving into an all-white neighborhood.
Pt.4
#History
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