An electrifying story of the sensational Murder trial that divided a city and ignited the Civil Rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of Jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights.
Ossian Sweet, a proud Negro doctor-grandson of a slave-had made the long climb from the ghetto to a home.
The advent of automobiles had brought workers from around the globe to compete for manufacturing jobs, and tensions often flared with the KKK in ascendance and violence rising.
An electrifying story of the sensational Murder trial that divided a city and ignited the Civil Rights struggle In 1925, Detroit was a smoky swirl of Jazz and speakeasies, assembly lines and fistfights