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Boyle's focus is on a trial that laid bare the racial tensions of Detroit in the 1920s. On Sept. 8, 1925, Ossian Sweet, a young black physician, moved with his wife and baby daughter into a bungalow in a largely white neighborhood. Just one night later, a white mob began showering the place with rocks while police stood by. Then a barrage of gunfire blazed back from the house. Anticipating trouble, Sweet had secretly stored away guns and recruited friends to help him defend his home...
...report on the Tuskegee airmen mistakenly identified Lieut. General Benjamin O. Davis Jr. as the first black graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. That distinction belongs to Henry Ossian Flipper, an 1877 graduate...
...warriors killed on the field of Agincourt), fake newspapers, propaganda photos, films and books. Some of these, like the so-called Protocols of the Elders of Zion, forged by a 19th century Russian anti-Semite, have had appalling political consequences. Others, like the work of the fictional bard Ossian and the skull of Piltdown man, have had deep cultural ones. Others still, like the phony mermaids that turned up in the cabinets of Renaissance collectors and the fraudulent photographs of fairies that deceived Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, the creator of Sherlock Holmes, may not have mattered greatly but retain...
...Firetrucks surrounded an empty deteriorating house that had been repeatedly set afire and extinguished by fire fighters. Close up, one could see on each truck the seal of the city, beautifully painted, and on it a picture of Ossian Hall, a plantation house built in Annandale about 1783--a structure historic enough to give the community a sense of its heritage and its identity...
...house being burned was Ossian Hall...