Arc of Justice Sweet Trials Debate & Reenactment
The Charles H. Wright Museum presented a performance of Dr. Sweet's Tinderbox by Brenda Perryman on January 14, 2012. The event was a dramatization of the historic Detroit murder trials involving Dr. Ossian Sweet, Clarence Darrow, and Judge Frank Murphy that became an early and significant marker for civil rights efforts.This program was presented in partnership with the Michigan Humanities Council as a part of the 2011-12 Great Michigan Read book tour for Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights, and Murder in the Jazz Age, by Kevin Boyle.
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