Who is Gladys Sweet?

Gladys is Sweet's wife and the mother of Iva. Gladys was born in Pittsburgh and grew up in Detroit. She is arrested on the night of the shooting on Garland Avenue. Charges against her are eventually dropped and she is released. While in the Wayne County Jail Gladys contracts tuberculosis, which spreads to daughter Iva. When released from prison, she takes an apartment and continues to fight for the cause of her husband and the others. After the charges against Sweet are dropped, Gladys and Iva move to Tucson, hoping the climate will help their tuberculosis. However, both die from the disease.