One hundred years after a Black doctor was absolved for defending himself against an angry White mob for moving with his family into a Detroit neighborhood, the city has opened a memorial park next to the doctor's former house to teach visitors about the incident and housing discrimination people of color faced in Detroit in the 1920s.

The city celebrated the opening of the Ossian Sweet Memorial Park at the corner of Garland and Charlevoix on Wednesday. Plaques give visitors information about Sweet and about the organized violence and resistance White people faced when they migrated north from the southern U.S.

"This is a site that we can be proud of," said Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan. "The history isn't something we're proud of, but the way we remember where we've come from and where we a

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