Doctor's tale of courage: Man helped integrate Detroit neighborhood

Community interest has thrust the story of Dr. Ossian Sweet into the spotlight.

Students are reading up on Sweet, a black doctor who integrated a white neighborhood. He was charged with killing a white man who stood with a mob throwing rocks outside his home in 1925. The University of Detroit Mercy put on a play this month re-creating the trial. And nearly 80 years later, people still stop in front of his home to simply take in history.

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