I watched Rosewood last night

I am still in shock!

It was about a Negro "town" in Florida in the 1920s that was destroyed by a white mob over a false allegation by a white woman that a black man had beat her.

I almost had to stop watching about halfway though it. I am white and I feel so ashamed of things white people did like this incident. Reparations were made by Florida to survivors in the early 90s. Why can't reparations be made in this manner (state by state)?

but I can't imagine Georgia or Alabama going for it. For the most part those times aren't acknowledged as being 'that bad' and there are still many who think they did what was required during those times - no apologies.

over 35 blocks of black homes and businesses destroyed, over half the black population put into detention camps, who knows how many blacks killed, etc.....

it has been called the worst race riot in US history, but....

up until very recently there was NO info about this in Tulsa histories or in standard black histories

you have to be careful about internet sources on this....

it was a riot of WHITES ATTACKING BLACKS

The city has never, and probably will never, recover. White women snatching babies from black mothers and throwing them over the bridge and into the Mississippi River is just too much. White mobs nailing blacks inside their wooden houses and torching the house, forcing them to choose between burning alive or being shot, beaten and hung on a cable car pole if they ran out of the house.

Also.. the Lynching of Mary Turner:

http://www.pasadenajournal.com/id67.html
In the early 1900’s Mary Turner was upset about the lynching of her husband. Mary was eight months pregnant and made a comment that she would get even with those who hung her husband and would sign arrest warrants against the killers. The white residents of Valdosta, Georgia decided to teach her a lesson for being uppity enough to be vocal about her pain. A mob found her tied her upside down to a tree, doused her with gasoline and burned her alive. One of the crowd members took a knife and split her belly open letting the baby fall out. Another member of the crowd smashed the baby’s head with his foot. Then the crowd took out their guns and filled the burning body of Mary Turner with bullets. The Associated Press wrote that Mary Turner had made unwise remarks about the execution of her husband.

In Colombus, Mississippi a mob looking for the son of Cordelia Stevenson for allegedly burning a white man’s barn couldn’t find the boy so they satisfied their evil thirst by stripping and hanging Cordelia naked for public viewing. The (all-white) jury verdict was not guilty of murder.

In Okemah, Oklahoma, in 1911, Laura Nelson was accused of killing the local sheriff. A mob entered the jail where she was being held to go to court for the allegations. They took her from her cell , raped her, then took her teenage son and hung her and her son from a bridge. They then used the bodies for target practice. It was later determined that neither Nelson nor her son had anything to do with the death of the sheriff.

Between 1882 and 1968, 4,742 Blacks were lynched by mobs, mostly for being "uppity."


there must be a God in heaven who will avenge these women.