Riviera Seaside, FL
The Black community of Rosewood near Gainesville was erased in the to start with week of 1923 as it was attacked by indignant white marauders. Reminiscences even now linger for a West Palm guy, whose mother endured it.
Wayne Washington
Palm Beach front Put up
Just one hundred several years back, Robie Robinson, then 7 or 8 years old, was put on a educate with her sister Sebie and slipped out of the only Florida local community she had recognised, a area she’d sometime remember for its abundance of flowers.
Rosewood.
Currently, Rosewood is a one setting up and a roadside marker on State Street 24 in Levy County, about 50 miles west of Gainesville. What was when a flourishing Black group now exists only in yellowing news posts and in the stories descendants explain to of what their ancestors endured, escaped or survived.
