My Name is Ossian Sweet [EXPLICIT- V, LI, VM] -

Ossian Sweet was born and raised in Bartow, Florida, where life for Negroes in the early 1900's was very difficult. ACT I describes his odyssey to the North in the Great Migration of the twenties where he meets and marries the lovely Gladys Atkinson and becomes a medical doctor, living with her in Detroit. They buy a house in a lily-white neighborhood,” and all hell breaks loose. In fact, the entire group of family and friends are put on trial for murder when stray bullet kills a white man in a melee as the neighbors are mobbing the house. ACT II is set in a courtroom where Clarence Darrow, who has been secured by the NAACP to defend them, works his legal magic on behalf of the Sweets and the right of anyone to live where he or she wants in a color-blind society.see less