Mary Hall Daniels was a child of 3 years old when a white mob destroyed her home and the predominantly African American community of Rosewood in Levy County in 1923. The last survivor of what came to ...
Lizzie Robinson Jenkins didn’t want to spend the rest of her life researching Rosewood. But she had to. Needed to. It was her destiny after all: The false accusation against her uncle sparked the ...
ROSEWOOD, Fla. — Lizzie Robinson Jenkins’s living room walls are covered in neat rows and columns of early 1900s history. Tables are littered with artifacts from her aunt, including frayed ...
In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days. Rosewood ...
WAS NORMALIZED. THIS IS THE ERA WE START WITH TONIGHT. THE STORY WHICH HAPPENED NEARLY 300 MILES AWAY, IT’S BEEN 100 YEARS SINCE THE ROSEWOOD MASSACRE IN CENTRAL FLORIDA. FIVE BLACK PEOPLE AND TWO ...
What some observers called one of the most controversial bills in Florida history, a $2.1 million payment to survivors and descendants of the infamous Rosewood massacre, lives on 25 years later. After ...