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eridani

(51,907 posts)
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 03:07 AM Jan 2015

Remembering the Rosewood Massacre

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/01/04/1354699/-Remembering-the-Rosewood-Massacre

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On January 1, 1923 a massacre was carried out in the small, predominantly black town of Rosewood in Central Florida. The massacre was instigated by the rumor that a white woman, Fanny Taylor, had been sexually assaulted by a black man in her home in a nearby community. A group of white men, believing this rapist to be a recently escaped convict named Jesse Hunter who was hiding in Rosewood, assembled to capture this man. Prior this event a series of incidents had stirred racial tensions within Rosewood. During the previous winter of 1922 a white school teacher from Perry had been murdered and on New Years Eve of 1922 there was a Ku Klux Klan rally held in Gainesville, located not far away from Rosewood.

In response to the allegation by Taylor, white men began to search for Jesse Hunter, Aaron Carrier and Sam Carter who were believed to be accomplices. Carrier was captured and incarcerated while Carter was lynched. The white mob suspected Aaron's cousin, Sylvester Carrier, a Rosewood resident of harboring the fugitive, Jesse Hunter.

On January 4, 1923 a group of 20 to 30 white men approached the Carrier home and shot the family dog. When Sylvester's mother Sarah came to the porch to confront the mob they shot and killed her. Sylvester defended his home, killing two men and wounding four in the ensuing battle before he too was killed. The remaining survivors fled to the swamps for refuge where many of the African American residents of Rosewood had already retreated, hoping to avoid the rising conflict and increasing racial tension. The next day the white mob burned the Carrier home before joining with a group of 200 men from surrounding towns who had heard erroneously that a black man had killed two white men. As night descended the mob attacked the town, slaughtering animals and burning buildings. An official report claims six blacks killed along with two whites. Other accounts suggest a larger total. At the end of the carnage only two buildings remained standing, a house and the town general store
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Remembering the Rosewood Massacre (Original Post) eridani Jan 2015 OP
Thank you for posting this it is good gopiscrap Jan 2015 #1
A good tie in book - JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #2
About the same time as Tulsa, too (nt) Recursion Jan 2015 #6
Yep JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #9
They keep talking about doing a statue in LeDroit Park in DC about 1919 Recursion Jan 2015 #10
Jim Crow was a way to extend and maintain the slave system by other means; to keep black people NewDeal_Dem Jan 2015 #7
I know - my father was born into the system JustAnotherGen Jan 2015 #8
.. Cha Jan 2015 #3
... shenmue Jan 2015 #4
Kick! Heidi Jan 2015 #5

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
2. A good tie in book -
Tue Jan 6, 2015, 06:14 AM
Jan 2015
http://www.amazon.com/JUDGMENT-Redemption-Called-Rosewood-ROSEWOOD/dp/1572972564

It also takes a deep dive into the lawsuit the survivors won when they were elderly.

That is a flawless example of why slavery is not the issue - Jim Crow's economic and criminal injustice system is still reverberating in America today.

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
9. Yep
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 06:07 AM
Jan 2015

And when I see Waco TX or Paducah KY my mind doesn't go to cult standoff or school shooting. The Red Summer - summer of 1919 was very very red too.

Recursion

(56,582 posts)
10. They keep talking about doing a statue in LeDroit Park in DC about 1919
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 06:31 AM
Jan 2015

But the statue would be of an armed black man (DC was one of the few places where the black neighborhoods fought back), and that ruffles too many feathers.

 

NewDeal_Dem

(1,049 posts)
7. Jim Crow was a way to extend and maintain the slave system by other means; to keep black people
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 04:45 AM
Jan 2015

as a source of cheap or free labor and to keep them subservient.

Jim Crow was an extension of the slave system.

JustAnotherGen

(31,683 posts)
8. I know - my father was born into the system
Wed Jan 7, 2015, 06:04 AM
Jan 2015

ETA - there's a hard demarcation between slavery and Jim Crow being the point of insult - and it starts around 1945. I think my father was right -

"Shit got real" when GI's started coming home - the military desegregated, and those Draft notices started showing up at black homes during the Vietnam war.

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