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Essay on The Rosewood Massacre
On New Year's Day 1923, a mob of white men descended on Rosewood, Florida, to retaliate an act that was only alleged to be factual. The mob burned houses, killed many black men and women, and drove the rest of the small town's inhabitants away forever. There is but one way to know the truth, and that is not a golden one. It is fraught with toil and sacrifice and perhaps ridicule. The seeker of the truth must be fearless, he must not be afraid to enter the innermost holies of holies, and to tear down the veils of superstition that hang about any human and so-called divine institution. It is the truth that makes men free. If the truth tears down every church and government under the sun, let the truth be known and this truth only will be known when men cease to swallow the capsules of ancient doctors of divinities and politics; and when men begin to seek the truth in the records of history, politics, religion, and science.
For more than half a century the Rosewood Massacre the ethnically provoked devastation of a small black community on the Gulf Coast of Florida in the winter of 1923 remained wrapped in myth and mystery, unrecorded in history books, mentioned only in whispers by those who had been there. Seventy years after that attack, in the winter of 1993, a handful of the survivors, long scattered across the state, came together and faced the Florida state legislature, filing a multimillion-dollar claims bill for the homes and land they and their families had lost a lifetime ago.
Rosewood was a small community located in the swamps of northwest Florida. All but one of the 150 families living there in the early 1920s was African-American. The residents of the peaceful neighborhood.....
