In the years after World War I, Black people were thriving in the central Florida town of Rosewood when a White mob driven by racial animosity decimated the entire community within days. Rosewood ...
Always a long shot to make it through the Legislature, the Rosewood compensation bill has only to survive a tight vote in a Senate committee today and another vote on the Senate floor to become law.
Survivors of the 1923 Rosewood massacre say the state has partly reneged on a promise to provide $100,000 in scholarships to their descendants. Lawmakers approved more than $2.1-million in ...
ROSEWOOD, Fla. — Lizzie Robinson Jenkins’s living room walls are covered in neat rows and columns of early 1900s history. Tables are littered with artifacts from her aunt, including frayed ...