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    • The Rosewood massacre was a racially motivated massacre of black people and the destruction of a black town that took place during the first week of January 1923 in rural Levy County, Florida, United States. At least six black people were killed, but eyewitness accounts suggested a higher death toll of 27 to 150. In addition, two white people were killed i… See more

    Background

    Rosewood was settled in 1847, nine miles (14 km) east of Cedar Key, near the Gulf of Mexico. Most of the local economy … See more

    Events in Rosewood

    The Rosewood massacre occurred after a white woman in Sumner claimed she had been assaulted by a black man. Frances "Fannie" Taylor was 22 years old in 1923 and married to James, a 30-year-old millwright employed … See more

    DateJanuary 1–7, 1923
    Deaths6 black and 2 white people (official figure) · 27 to 150 in some reports
    InjuredUnknown
    Culture of silence

    Despite nationwide news coverage in both white and black newspapers, the incident, and the small abandoned village, slipped into oblivion. Most of the survivors scattered around Florida cities and started over with n… See more

    Seeking justice

    Philomena Goins Doctor died in 1991. Her son Arnett was, by that time, "obsessed" with the events in Rosewood. Although he was originally excluded from the Rosewood claims case, he was included after this was revealed b… See more

    Rosewood remembered

    The Rosewood massacre, the ensuing silence, and the compensation hearing were the subject of the 1996 book titled Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood by Mike D'Orso. It was a … See more

    See also

    • African Americans in Florida
    • Black genocide – the notion that African Americans have been subjected to genocide
    • Domestic terrorism in the United States… See more

    Bibliography

    • D'Orso, Michael (1996). Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood, Grosset/Putnam. ISBN 0-399-14147-2
    • Dunn, Marvin. (2013). The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence, … See more

     
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