The Wright Museum
Event
- Title:
- Dr. Sweet's Tinderbox Theatrical Performance
- When:
- Wed, Feb 22 - Wed, Feb 22 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
- Where:
- General Motors Theater - Detroit
- Category:
- Theatrical Production
Description
As a followup to the at-capacity January 14 event, this encore performance of Dr. Sweet's Tinderbox, by Brenda Perryman, is 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 is 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. "Arc of Justice" tells the story of African American Dr. Ossian Sweet and the chain of events that occurred after he purchased a home for his family in an all-white Detroit neighborhood in 1925.
This event is FREE and open to the public. The Great Michigan Read is presented by the Michigan Humanities Council with support from Meijer and the National Endowment for the Humanities. For more information on the Great Michigan Read program, please visit http://michiganhumanities.org/programs/tgmr/.
Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History
315 East Warren Avenue
Detroit, Michigan 48201
(313) 494-5800
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Venue
- Venue:
- General Motors Theater - Website
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