The late Rosewood survivor Mahulda Gussie Brown Carrier’s 131st birthday inspired a fundraising event with the goal of help raise funds to build a museum to preserve a painful, yet powerful chapter of ...
Descendants of the Rosewood Massacre gathered with friends and family to recognize their history and discuss ways to create a better future during an event held to remember the centennial anniversary ...
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 ...
The families gathering were not related by blood but by a cruel history. Nearly a century ago, their forebears had to flee their town of Rosewood, Fla., after a white mob burned their prosperous, ...
TAMPA, Fla (WFLA) – A painting on display at the Tampa International Airport is remembering the victims and survivors of a brutal, race-drive attack on a predominately African-American Florida town.
Read full article: Florida senator wants to extend scholarship program to descendants of Ocoee Massacre Lizzie Jenkins, a descendant of a Rosewood survivor, launched the "Real Rosewood Foundation" in ...
This year marks the centennial anniversary of the massacre in the town of Rosewood. WUFT’s Kristin Moorehead spoke to University of Florida history professor Steve Noll about the significance of this ...
Mary Hall Daniels was 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 be known as ...
On January 1st, 1923, the Rosewood Massacre occurred in central Florida, destroying a predominantly black neighborhood fueled by a false allegation. A white woman by the name of Fannie Taylor claimed ...
A fundraising event was held in Archer, Florida, to raise money for a Rosewood Massacre museum. The event took place at the Archer train depot, where Mahulda Gussie Brown Carrier sought refuge after ...
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 ...
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