Post by Tamrin on Jan 2, 2010 6:40:13 GMT 10
Remembering Rosewood
Rosewood, Florida, a community of about 350 people,
wiped off the map by white vigilantes in 1923.
Knowledge of the massacre was suppressed until the 1990's
Rosewood, Florida, a community of about 350 people,
wiped off the map by white vigilantes in 1923.
Knowledge of the massacre was suppressed until the 1990's
In 1920, Rosewood blacks had three churches, a school, a large Masonic Hall, a turpentine mill, a sugarcane mill, a baseball team and two general stores (one of which was white-owned). The village had about two dozen plank two-story homes, some other small houses, as well as several small unoccupied plank structures.
