Rosewood Florida Massacre

Police have found a body of a young teenage boy, in a popular gang. The body was found in an alleyway. The victim had bled to death. The boy found was named Andy, in the gang the royals, 16 and attending Grover Cleveland High School. Many of Andy's teachers say he was a strong academic student in many of his subjects.

Police of criminal law in Georgia are seeking three armed men who shot and killed a man during a home invasion. Friends and family have said that the criminals targeted Craigory Burch Jr., a resident of Fitzgerald, Georgia, because of his recent winning of the lottery. Jasmine Hendricks, Craigory's girlfriend, said that the suspects blew the door open with a shotgun blast.

On January, 23 1906 a white woman named Nevada Taylor was dropped off the bus station in Chattanooga, Tennessee at 6:30 p.m. only two and half blocks from her home. Little did she know she was being followed? A man grabbed her by the neck and drug her ten feet before throwing her over a fence. She screamed and struggled as he put a leather strap around her neck and threatened to cut her throat. Taylor accounts waking up about ten minutes later in torn and dirty clothes covered in bruises. Her doctor later confirmed she had been raped. She claimed to have never of saw the face of the attacker but he had a soft voice of a black man. During this time of prejudice, segregation and hatred towards Negros was just a way of life for the

The case “Justice for the Jena Six” took place in the quaint, southern town of Jena, Louisiana. Tension between colored and white students began months earlier when a white student hung nooses from Jean High School's notorious “white tree”. The “white tree” was an area where only whites congregated. The nooses were the spark that initiated the fire, causing the the peaceful, Southern town to retrogress to its previous state of racial tension. Fights between the colored and whites were perpetuating causing the District Attorney Reed Walters to prosecute six black teens for the vicious attack against Justin Barker. Justin Barker was an innocent, white teen who was knocked unconscious by a blow to the head by initiator Mychal Bell. While

The documented history of the incident which occurred at Rosewood, Florida in January 1923 is a group of recollections from a few of Rosewood survivors, new stories and/or coverage. Racial violence in the nation before the events of Rosewood happened. Because of the racial tension during and after the war, many blacks migrated from the south. Florida’s government soon supported black leaving the South. “…proposed Congress purchase territory, either foreign or domestic, and transport black such regions where they could live separate lives and govern themselves” pg 4.

Pennsylvania. Washington’s men murdered the gathering in what came to be recognized as The Battle of Jumonville Glen. France and England initially pursued the French and Indian War mainly for power of the area known as the Ohio River Valley. The Ohio River Valley was a property filled with fur-bearing animals and profuse resources. Both English and French colonists wanted to settle it to make fortunes in the fur trade. The Ohio River formed by the union of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers at the time Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ran through the valley. As French settlers arrived upon the area from Canada, and English settlers came from Virginia, territory clashes were unavoidable. Neither side was willing to negotiation, as each assumed they

On the morning before the lynchings, Harrison drove to the house of Dorothy Malcom's parents, who had begged with him to get Roger Malcom out of jail since the stabbing occurred. Harrison refused to pick him up at first, but suddenly changed his mind. Harrison took along with him Dorothy Malcom , who was pregnant at the time, and George Mae Murray Dorsey to Monroe. Their Harrison signed a $600 bond to bail Roger Malcom out of jail. Harrison, with the two black couples in his car, left the county jail at about 5:30 p.m. on July 25, 1946, and headed back along the Athens Highway toward his farm. Authorities said the route he chose was the longest way home, along a winding dirt road (Suggs,C4). According to Harrison, when he reached the bridge at Moore's Ford, a car blocked his way (Rivers,1). A mob of twenty to twenty-five unmasked men stopped him at gunpoint (Suggs, C1). Then they took the two couples into the woods, tied them to the trees and shot them. They were so savagely beaten and overwhelmed with bullets that their bodies were ripped to shreds. " The only way to tell the bodies apart was by their lips." Investigator Bobby Howard said. When questioning Harrison he told the local authorities and the FBI he could not identify any members of the mob or explain how they knew which way he was coming home. No one was ever prosecuted for the slayings of the African Americans and why it happened is

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On March 5, 1770, two regiments of British soldiers that were stationed in Boston opened fire on a mob of bystanders that wanted the British out of Boston. This protest was for the ending of the quartering of soldiers in people’s homes. On May 4, 1970, the National Guardsmen fired upon the unarmed students of Kent State University who were protesting against fighting in the Vietnam War. The result of this was a change in the policies of the National Guard and to use rubber bullets. These two shootings in American history are examples of Military Representatives actively firing on unarmed citizens. Also, examples of the civilians provoking the Military Representatives for them to shoot. We can use these examples for today’s society to further the developments in non-lethal actions against protesters. But before the lessons learned with these two shootings are highlighted, the history and significance of these events need to be understood.

Racial tension between African Americans and whites caused an excessive amount of violence in the city of Rosewood. Citizens of Rosewood, Florida were victims of racial violence in 1923, which lead to eight documented deaths in the city. The city of Rosewood took a turn for the worst on January 1, 1923 when Frances “Fannie” Taylor claimed that she was assaulted by an African American man who enter her home without invitation. Many of the African American families that became involved knew that Mrs. Taylor was not telling the truth. Fannie lied to the people of Rosewood to fabricate the truth of her having an affair with another man. The man that assaulted her was not an African American; it was Fannie Taylor’s lover. Because of the lie, the city of Rosewood was instantly torn into pieces.

Is a strike that began on February 11, 1968 in Memphis Tennessee? Citing years of poor treatment, discrimination, the dangerous working conditions and the horrifying deaths of Echol Cole and Robert walker. The two Memphis garage collectors were crushed to death by a malfunctioning truck. Cole and walkers demise may have been the catalyst for the two month strike, but it wasn’t the sole reason. Frustrated by the cities response to the event after a long pattern of constant neglect and abuse for its black employees, the 1300 black men from the Memphis department of public work decided to go on strike.

Eventually, the occurrence of the Orangeburg Massacre led to the racial integration of Orangeburg and many other parts of South Carolina. If the Orangeburg Massacre had not occurred, South Carolina might not have become the racially equal society it is today. However, not everybody agreed with the change that was being brought as a result of the event. Many caucasians at the time attempted to cover the incident up, and to blame whatever could not be hidden on the protesters. Nevertheless, civil rights protesters were not going to let the killing of their fellow pupils be in vain. The students of Orangeburg demanded the punishment of highway patrolmen and other law enforcers on scene the night of the massacre. “They wished to see the officers punished to the fullest extent of the law so that justice could be served to the families of the three young men who were killed” (Pulaski 10). But, as an attempt to hide the massacre, many white-owned newspaper companies either simply refused to report the event, or blamed the massacre on the protesters that participated that night (3 Negroes 1). “A skirmish line of highway patrolmen and city police returned the fire of demonstrating college students last night” (3 Negroes 1). After a scant two weeks, no white-owned newspaper business covered the event at all.

of a live Negro (Documented History). The massacre and destruction of the town of Rosewood,

“From Chicago to Tulsa, to Omaha, East St. Louis, and many communities in between, and family to Rosewood, white mobs pursued what can only be described as a reign of terror against African Americans during the period from 1917 to 1923.” (Rosewood Report, 1995, Pg. 3) Lynching had become very common in the United States, although the number of lynching’s had declined from 64 in 1921 to 57 in 1922. Rosewood was known to some as basically a riot, or a war. I believe Rosewood was known to become a war because the African Americans in Rosewood didn’t want the whites to run them out of the only city they were raised in. So the African Americans refused to leave, and fought back. How would you react if someone tried to run you out of your home, or the city you were raised in? Would you leave? Or fight back? Some incidents that occurred in Rosewood report had to do with Fannie Coleman. She was a married woman with three children, who claimed she was raped and beat by a black male while no one was home. According to Fannie Taylor’s version of events, “A black male came on foot to my house that morning and knocked. When I opened the door the black male proceeded to assault me.” (Rosewood Report, 1995, Pg. 5) None of this was true. She was having a affair with a white man, who beat her, so she lied and made a scene to the community to cover her up. Little do she know how this petty lie will cause many African Americans to die.

Members of the notorious Copeland Gang that had pillaged the area during the war years, murdered the entire Moffett family while trying to find the tons of supposed Confederate Gold that was rumored to have been hidden there during the height of the Civil War. And, even though Joshua had found a stash of 20-dollar gold pieces from the mid-eighteen hundreds buried under a tree near his cabin, he did not believe the legend about the Confederate Gold. However, anything was possible...