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4 years agoMaafa/Maangamizi/Neshni – The Wall of Evidence 4 years ago · 
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Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
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88,608
Abibisika (Black Gold) Points
ROSEWOOD, FLORIDA, MASSACRE (1923)
Similar to the massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1921, a Black community was burned to the ground two years later after a white woman named Fannie Taylor claimed she was assaulted by a Black man on January 1, 1923. The first person killed was Sam Carter, a local blacksmith. He was tortured and his mutilated body was hung from a tree.Sam Carter was one of many. There are reports that up to 150 Black people were killed in Rosewood, Florida.
After Rosewood was destroyed, a grand jury and special prosecutor decided there was not enough evidence for prosecution of the white men who killed innocent American citizens.
In 1997, the late, great filmmaker John Singleton famously made the film Rosewood, starring Ving Rhames, based on the massacre.
See a clip of a documentary on Rosewood
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