Darrow’s argument against racism and prejudice rings out 95 years later

Ninety-five years ago – in 1926 – Clarence Darrow defended Henry Sweet, who was charged, along with 10 friends and family members, of murder after he and the others used armed self-defense against a hostile white crowd protesting after Henry’s brother Ossian, an African-American physician, and his family moved into a Detroit neighborhood. One white…