Title
Detroit
Caption
Detroit, Michigan, The Ossian Sweet house on Detroit's east side, being rehabilitated with a grant from the National Park Service. When Sweet, an African-American doctor, moved his family into this then-all white neighborhood in 1925, a mob inspired by the Ku Klux Klan tried to force them out. Defenders of the home fired on the mob, killing one white man. Sweet and 10 others were charged with murder, they were defended by the NAACP and Clarence Darrow
Date
Dec 04, 2021
Credit line
Photo12/imageBROKER/Jim West
Reference
BRK23C59_213
Model release
No
Property release
NA
License type
Rights managed
Available size
86,1Mb (3,6Mb) / 22,4in x 14,9in / 6720 x 4480 (300dpi)