On this day in 1960, Dr. Ossian Sweet, a prominent medical doctor, joins the ancestors dying from a gunshot wound, an apparent suicide.
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He was 64.
Sweet was best known for being a victim of a racially-charged ambush in September 1925. He had purchased a home in a white neighborhood on the city’s lower east side. An angry mob of whites attempted to force him out of the 2905 Garland Street dwelling and a white man was killed in the altercation. Sweet, several family members and friends were charged in connection with the shooting but ultimately were acquitted of murder charges by an all-white jury.
In later years, Sweet suffered severe financial challenges, ill health, and the lost of his wife, at age of 27, and his brother.
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Ken Coleman, the author of On this Day: African-American Life in Detroit, is a native Detroiter and former news reporter. He served on the Detroit Charter Revision Commission. He lives in Detroit with his wife, Kim Trent, and their son, Jackson Coleman.
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