For years, longtime Florida resident Arnett Doctor noticed that his mother routinely went into a deep depression around Christmastime. It wasn't until weeks later that her yearly depression would subside, and he never understood why. Then one Christmas, when he was 19, Doctor's mother finally told him about the week of racial violence that she and dozens of other Black people endured in January 1923, when a white mob terrorized and destroyed their rural community in Rosewood, Fla.
1/9/1923 - Rosewood, Florida: First photos of Florida race riots shows a negro home in flames, the work of a mob of whites. The race riots followed an alleged brutal attack made on a white girl by a negro, Jesse Hunter. INP photo.For years, longtime Florida resident Arnett Doctor noticed that his mother routinely went into a deep depression around Christmastime. It wasn't until weeks later that her yearly depression would subside, and he never understood why.
The Rosewood massacre is eerily similar to a lot of other tragic incidents of racial violence in American history. In this instance,of about 150 mostly Black, land-owning residents on Jan. 1, 1923, after a white woman accused a Black man of assaulting her. News of the allegation spread fast as tensions quickly boiled over. An angry mob of white residents from nearby Sumner, Fla., began hunting for Jesse Hunter, a Black man accused of the assault with no evidence, for a week.
Doctor traveled across the state of Florida to talk to descendants of Rosewood following his mother's death; she had forbidden him from talking about it while she was alive. He connected with a reporter fromin 1982 to elevate the story, and he eventually enlisted a high-power law firm, Holland & Knight, to help with the fight. Twelve years later, the Florida Legislature passed a claims bill awarding the descendants $2.1 million for their losses.
have received the Rosewood scholarship since its inception in 1994, according to the Washington Post.in Gainesville, Fla., will commemorate the 100-year anniversary of the massacre. Speakers will include prominent civil rights attorney Ben Crump and the Rev. Jamal Bryant.
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