Event Details
Thursday, Nov 7, 2013
Archaeology Lecture: Social Justice in Rosewood, FL
Time: 3:30 pm til 5:00 pm
Location: USF St Pete, University Student Center, Ballroom 3
Description: Violence, Memory, and New Heritage: Social Justice in Rosewood, Florida
Dr. Edward Gonzalez-Tennant
By 1900, Rosewood was a successful, predominantly African-American community in Levy County, Florida. The town's residents enjoyed a degree of prosperity rarely afforded black communities at the time. This came to an abrupt end on January 1, 1923, when a woman in the neighboring town of Sumner fabricated an interracial assault to hide her extramarital affair. In the ensuing violence, a number of residents were brutally murdered, and the town burned to the ground. Rosewood's black residents fled for their lives, never to return.
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