We’re discussing the 100th anniversary of the Detroit incident that involved Dr. Ossian H. Sweet and resulted in one of America’s most famous civil rights trials. Host Stephen Henderson sits down with Daniel Baxter, founder & CEO of the Dr. Ossian H. Sweet Foundation, to talk about how Dr. Sweet’s legacy and how his former home on Detroit’s east side has been turned into an historical landmark with an adjacent memorial park.

Baxter details how Dr. Sweet, an African American physician, purchased the home on Garland in an all-white neighborhood in 1925. Soon after, an angry white crowd surrounded the house throwing rocks and shouting threats. One of the attackers was killed after shots rang out from inside the house. Dr. Sweet and members of his family went on trial for murder, ending first in a mistrial and then a not guilty verdict. Baxter explains how the case was a turning point in the civil rights movement. He also reflects on growing up in the Sweet home after his parents bought it from Dr. Sweet in 1958.