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'I have to die a man or live a coward' : the saga of Dr. Ossian Sweet (The origin of MI's old CCW)
Detroit News ^
| 2000
| Patricia Zacharias
Posted on 01/04/2002 11:35:35 AM PST by Dan from Michigan
Edited on 05/07/2004 7:08:44 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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"I have to die a man or live a coward." With these words, a mild-mannered black Detroit physician set in motion forces that would result in a dramatic milestone in America's civil rights movement, extending the notion that a man's home is his castle to blacks.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: banglist; ccw; drsweet; gun; racism; racist; roots; sweet
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To: Dan from Michigan
referenced till bm is back
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I finally remembered to bookmark it!
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