Sunday, Jan. 1, 2023, will mark 100 years since an angry, racist mob invaded and destroyed the town of Rosewood after a white woman falsely accused a Black man of assaulting her.
Lizzie Jenkins, a descendant of a Rosewood survivor, launched the"Real Rosewood Foundation" in 2003. Her mission is to preserve the town's history, before and after the tragedy.– In the 1920s, Rosewood, Florida, was a thriving, predominantly Black town in rural Levy County, about an hour southwest of Gainesville.And that historical marker doesn’t tell a pretty story. It carries the ugly truth that on Jan.
“Working people, everybody worked,” Jenkins said. “Everybody got along, they helped each other. And it was a beautiful town.” “Jan. 1, 1923, when Fannie Taylor, who was a resident of Sumner, accused my uncle of assaulting her,” Jenkins said. “However, her lover, or the man who attacked her or bruised her, was a white man.”
“They stayed there for a couple of nights, gave them food, took care of them for two nights,” Jenkins said. “Until the train that was owned by the Bryce brothers from Bryceville was able to rescue them.” In the years after the massacre, survivors largely stayed silent. Many people, even those born and raised in Florida, had no idea this happened. In 1997, Warner Brothers released a film entitled “Rosewood” based on the massacre. It was directed by John Singleton and starred Jon Voight and Don Cheadle.
Until then, Jenkins continues her life’s work, fulfilling a promise she made to her mother, whom she affectionately calls her “commander-in-chief.”
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