When someone in the household of black physician Ossian H. Sweet fired a fatal shot into the white mob assaulting the Sweet’s new house in a white neighborhood, the Sweets were
a. dragged immediately from their homes and murdered irrespective of their gender.
b. arrested and acquitted of all charges thanks to the legal support of the NAACP and famous white attorneys.
c. found guilty by an all-white jury, which rejected their pleas of self-defense, sentenced Ossian Sweet and his brother to execution, and sentenced Ossian’s wife to life imprisonment.
d. rescued from prison by a black mob and spirited away to Europe to escape prosecution.
c. found guilty by an all-white jury, which rejected their pleas of self-defense, sentenced Ossian Sweet and his brother to execution, and sentenced Ossian’s wife to life imprisonment.
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