Sweet, Ossian H.
- Identifier
- DBB-PER-01125
- Given Name
- Ossian H.
- Family Name
- Sweet
- Gender
- Male
- Birth Year
- 1895
- Death Year
- 1960
- Description
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Dr. Ossian Sweet was a physician in business for himself. His family came to Detroit from Bartow, Florida. His brother Otis Sweet was a dentist, and his brother Henry W. Sweet was a lawyer. Ossian Sweet's medical office was located on St Aubin Ave. in the 1920s and then on Chene St. in the 1930s.
In 1925, Ossian Sweet purchased a house at 2905 Garland St., in a predominantly white neighborhood. Shortly after his family moved into the house, their home was attacked by a mob of hostile whites, leading to an armed confrontation. Ossian Sweet, his two brothers Henry and Otis, and his wife Gladys, were all arrested and charged with murder. With the help of the NAACP and the famous attorney Clarence Darrow, Henry Sweet was acquitted. Subsequently, the charges against Ossian Sweet and the other defendants were dropped. - Migration Origin
- Bartow, Florida
- Activity
- physician
- Affiliation
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This person was an entrepreneur who operated a business and advertised services under their personal name.
- Book Pages
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This person, their family, or their business appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): 16, 36, 39, 41, 44, 68, 69, 70, 71, 106.
- References
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Portrait of O. H. Sweet, M.D., on page 24 in: National Medical Association, Souvenir and Official Program, Thirty-Second Annual Session (Detroit, 1927), https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015071543774.
"Ossian Sweet," Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ossian_Sweet.
- Documentation
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 21 (Sweet, O. H.)
- 1935 BTWTA Directory, 17 (Sweet, O. H.)
- Title
- Sweet, Ossian H.
