Ossian Sweet (October 1895–20 March 1960) was an American physician. He is most notable for his self defense in 1925 of his newly-purchased home in a predominantly white neighborhood against a mob attempting to force him out of the neighborhood in Detroit, Michigan. The subsequent acquittal by an all-white jury of murder charges against him, his family, and friends who helped defend his home, came to be known as the Sweet Trials. For more information, click here.