1923 — Jan 1-7, Rosewood Rioting, Whites attack Blacks, Rosewood, Levy Co., FL    —     >8

Compiled by Wayne Blanchard; last edit 4-11-2025 for upload to: http://www.usdeadlyevents.com/

–10  “The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.” http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/VdeLaOliva.html

—  8  Associated Press. “Rosewood massacre haunts memory after nearly 85 years.” 1-14-2008.

            –6  Blacks

            –2  Whites

—  8  Rosewoodremembered.org. “Rosewood Remembered.” (See website for names of victims.)

            –6  Blacks

            –2  Whites

—  8  Wikipedia. “Rosewood massacre.” 12-28-2012 modification.[1]

Narrative Information

Associated Press. “Rosewood massacre haunts memory after nearly 85 years.” 1-14-2008:

“Rosewood, Fla. (AP)…. On that day [Jan 1] 85 years ago, a 22-year-old white woman named Fannie Taylor told the Levy County sheriff that a Black man had assaulted her. Soon a mob of between 400 and 500 people was searching the woods around Rosewood, a community of about 30 Black families east of Cedar Key. Suspicion had fallen on Jesse Hunter, a Black man who recently had escaped from a chain gang.

 

“He was never found, but after seven days of violence, six Blacks and two Whites had been killed. The homes, stores and churches of Rosewood lay in ashes, and the surviving residents had fled through the woods….

 

“A 1993 investigation that the state commissioned during a debate over proposed reparations to the Rosewood survivors called the violence “a tragedy of American democracy and the American legal system.”

Sources

 

Associated Press. “Rosewood massacre haunts memory after nearly 85 years.” 1-14-2008. Accessed 1-2-2013 at: http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4291.shtml

 

Rosewoodremembered.org. “Rosewood Remembered.” Accessed 4-11-2025 at: https://rosewoodremembered.org/history.php

 

“The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921.” http://www.mc.cc.md.us/Departments/hpolscrv/VdeLaOliva.html

 

Wikipedia. “Rosewood massacre.” 12-28-2012 modification and 4-8-2024 last edit. Accessed 4-11-2025 at:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewood_massacre

 

[1] “At least six blacks and two whites were killed.”