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Rosewood Massacre
Florida Memory, State Library and Archives of Florida
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Historic crimes & investigations · 1–7 January 1923Open article references →
The Rosewood Massacre
Former Rosewood community and massacre landscape · United States
Why editors use it hereState archive exhibit with documents, photographs, maps, chronology, and educational interpretation.
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Quick read
In the first week of January 1923, white mobs attacked the predominantly Black community of Rosewood after a white woman in nearby Sumner alleged that a Black man had assaulted her.
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Trigger and conditions
On 1 January, Fannie Taylor reported an assault and identified her attacker only as Black.
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Uncertainty
The state report confirmed at least eight deaths, six Black and two white, while testimony and later accounts suggest more Black victims.
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Why it matters
Rosewood shows racial terror functioning as dispossession: violence did not only kill individuals but erased a landowning community and transferred the cost across generations.
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