Rosewood+Massacre,+Florida+(1923)

Home 1920's Topics __1920’s Project Assignment__ Rosewood Massacre, Florida 1923 Researched by Brooks Mason
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__Task One---DESCRIBE YOUR TOPIC -Due Tuesday, February 7__ Each topic includes an association or movement and an individual. Please write __two__ extended power paragraphs that address the following prompt:
 * Explain the achievements associated with your topic. Who and what were altered? Describe why both were significant in the 1920s. Explain the relationship between the individua****l and the association or movement.**


 * Support the ideas in each paragraph with evidence from a minimum of three credible sources.
 * Select only signed sources from the LC databases--each source must have a credible author.
 * Establish the credibility of the author the first time a source is referenced.
 * Credit sources with internal citations and in a Works Cited.
 * Insert the Works Cited after the Third Task.
 * Post the paragraphs to the wiki. Timely posting of completed tasks earn 10 points.

POST PARAGRAPHS HERE

The Rosewood Massacre took place in Rosewood, Florida, which was a prodominatly black town. The massacre is characterized as a race riot, because a large group of white men murdered innocent blacks and later burned the town down and left it deserted. The spark of this conflict all started when "Fannie Taylor, a young white woman living in Sumner, claimed that a black man sexually assaulted her" (Myers 1). The man who raped Fannie Taylor was believed to be a black man named Jesse Hunter, who was believed to be hiding with his cousin Sylvester Carrier. Angry, a "group of 20 to 30 white men approached the Carrier home and shot the family dog, [and] when Sylvester's mother Sarah came to the porch to confront the mob they shot and killed her" (Goodloe). As you can imagine, this made Sylvester furious, to the point where he killed 2 of the men and wounded 4, but he was killed just like his dog and mother. As you can imagine, Carrier fighting back caused the "white men [to return] to Carrier's house the following evening... [and] where joined by a mob of about 200 whites" (Myers 1). The giant mob burned down the Carrier's home with the bodies still inside, and the rest of the town to, leaving in deserted. Although only an estimated 8 people had died in the riot, it was still a huge event.

Not everybody in the small town of Rosewood was killed. Many people, mainly the women and children escaped the madness. The night when the giant mob burned down the town of Rosewood, "two local white train conductors, John and William Bryce, who knew all of Rosewood's residents, picked up the black women and children and took them to Gainesville" (Myers 1). These two men knew what was happening, and wanted everyone who wasn't harmed already safe. Another man who risked his life to save the citizens of Rosewood safe was "John Wright, the owner of the general store" (Goodloe). Wright hid many blacks in his store and waited until it was okay for them to escape. The victims who weren't saved by John and William Bryce or hidden by John Wright "escaped by foot [and] headed for Gainesville or for other cities in the Northern Unied States" (Myers 1). Little did the ones who ended up in Gainesville would late be attacked by the KKK. This event shows that during the 1920s, whites still hated blacks, still to the point where they would kill them and destroy their towns.

__Task Two-EVALUATE YOUR TOPICS INFLUENCE-Due Friday, February 10__ Please write two extended power paragraphs which each cite a minimum of three credible sources. Discuss the scope of influence of your topic on the 1920s. How extensive was the influence? Which part of society was influenced? Did the change endure or stimulate additional changes? What is the topic's legacy? What impact did the topic have in the Twenty-First century.

POST PARAGRAPHS HERE The Rosewood Massacre was not a gigantic event, but it did make some public appearances. The event did make a couple of appearances in newspapers and magazines. One of the newspapers it was mentioned in was "The Chicago Defender, the most influential black newspaper in the US" (Markovitz). Because the massacre was one of the US's largest race riots, there is no doubt that it would appear in the US's largest black newspaper. Also, the event, and "state leaders [of Florida] feared negative effects on the state's tourist industry" (Jones). Florida leaders knew the Rosewood Massacre would scare thousands of people across the nation, and they didn't want a big event like this to stop people from visiting and touring Florida. The governor of Florida at the time, "Cary Hardee appointed a special grand jury and special prosecuting attorney to investigate the outbreak in Rosewood and other incidents in Levy County" (Gannon). He wanted to get to the bottom of the conflict and stop it so the nation would stop worrying about it. As there were many race riots going on at the time, the Rosewood Massacre was considerably bigger than most others, and made quite a bit of news coverage.

As many things are forgotten, the Rosewood Massacre was one of them. It wasn't until 1996, 73 years later, that the Rosewood Massacre was remembered. A book //called "Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood// by Michael D'Orso" (D'Orso) was written to remember everything and everyone that happened during the massacre. This is important because it took 73 years for somebody to finally step up and remember the horrible event that happened. A year after the book was written, the movire Rosewood was released. The movie was based on "the events" (Markovitz) that happened. In 2004, the "State of Florida declared Rosewood a Florida Heritage Landmark and erected a historical marker on State Road 24 that names the victims and describes the community's destruction" (Jones). This shows that the state of Florida cares about Rosewood, and that it was such a big event, they marked it as a state landmark. It is surprising that it took this long for Rosewood to be remembered.

Task ThreeJUDGE THE IMPACT OF THE INDIVIDUAL & ASSOCIATION---Due Feb. 15 Now that you have a basic understanding of your topic, and you know the scope of its influence, explain the forces that produced or created the topic. Additionally, what were the driving forces behind the society's reaction to your topic? Use the criteria described in the the Great Man Continuum to determine your topics long-run influence on society. Place your topic on the continuum and justify the reasons for your placement. Please confine your analysis to two extended power paragraphs with each citing a minimum of three credible sources.

POST PARAGRAPHS HERE The Rosewood Massacre was created due to the same reason as every other race riot, hatred. Still, during the 1920s, hatred toward blacks was very common, and strong, and when someone or something, in this case the rape conflict against Jesse Hunter, sparks these hatred filled people, something horrible is going to occur. As these race riots kept coming and coming, more and more people were getting furious, one of which being Ida B. Wells-Barnett the "coeditor of the Memphis newspaper Free Speech and Headlight" (Wells-Barnett 1). Not only did Ida hate these race riots and felt they were unneccesary, she believed they were also making things worse. Ida didn't focus on the whole thing of the race riot, but more on lynching, which she hated so much she "[moved] to New York and later to Chicago [to] devote her life to chronicling incidents of lynching, organizing anti-lynching societies, and lecturing in the northern U.S. cities and it Britain" (Giddings 1). Ida was obviously bothered by the act of lynching very much, and she tried whatever she could to get the word out on how awful the act of it is. Ida basically worshipped her beliefs, and believed "that if the American people were made aware of the atrocities commited against black people, and armed with the proper facts, Americans as a whole would speak out in "thunder tones" against this most barbaric form of opression" (Gibson 1). Wells-Barnett knew for a fact that if the people of America followed her beliefs, lynching would be a thing of the past. Ida B. Wells-Barnett doesn't necessarily fit anywhere on the Great Man Continuum, mainly because anyone could have done what she did, but what she did certainly did make a differnece.

Ida B. Wells-Barnett was not the only one who wanted lynching to beeliminated from society. Many groups, such as the Commission on Interracial Cooperation, the National Association of Colored Women and the Anti-Lynching Crusaders joined the cause to stop the horrible act of lynching. These groups "raised funds for the anti-lynching campaign and lobbied on behalf of the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill" (Hall), which was a bill that was being passed to stop the act of lynching in it's tracks. These groups believed that raising money and siding with a bill that agreed with them would give them a strong support in their fight. Mary B. Talbert, the "director of the Anti-Lynching Crusders" (Giddings), set a goal to get "a million women to donate at least on dollar" (Giddings) to the group and to recruit white women to the group, as most of these groups were made up of black women. Talbert knew that money would help, but would help the most is if she could recruit white women to the cause, because she knew the white men would listen better to a white woman than a black woman, mainly due to the high amount of discrimination against blacks at the time. Jessie Adams "established the most effective white women's organization, the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching" (Rosenbaum). Adams' group was the most successful in shwing that lynching should be prevented. As the Dyer Anti-Lynching Bill never passed, and many organizations fell unsuccessful, the nation was shown how much people wanted to prevent the horrible act of lynching.

POST WORKS CITED HERE

Goodloe, Trevor. "Rosewood Massacre (1923)." //Black Past//. N.p., 22 Dec. 1993. Web. 6 Feb. 2012. .

Gibson, Robert A. "The Negro Holocaust: Lynching and Race Riots in the United States,1880-1950." //Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Feb. 2012. .

Giddings, Paula. //When and Where I Enter//. New York: William Morrow & Company, 1984

Hall, Jacquelyn Dowd, Ann Snitow, Christine Stansell, and Sharon Thompson, eds. //The Mind That Burns in Each Body: Women, Rape and Racial Violence.// New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983

Rosenbaum, Jon H., and Peter C. Sederberg, eds. //Vigilante Politics.// Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1976

"Anti-Lynching Letter from Ida B. Wells-Barnett (1902)." //Oxford African American Studies Center,// []

Myers, Aaron. "Rosewood Case." //Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience, Second Edition//, edited by Ed. Kwame Anthony Appiah. , edited by and Henry Louis Gates Jr.. . //Oxford African American Studies Center//, http://www.oxfordaasc.com/article/opr/t0002/e3388

Rubric for all three tasks: Outstanding paragraphs include the following elements: <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Accurate power paragraph format with each paragraph citing evidence from three different sources. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Correct research components such as credibility statement, internal citations, Works Cited entries <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Thoughtful and thorough response to the each prompt <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ A variety of sentences with interesting, clear diction <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Photos exemplifying the influence of the individual and association or movement <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Place your topic on the Great Man Continuum; <span style="color: #d66200; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">- done in paragraph, but include the actual continuum <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;">✓ Complete the <span style="color: #ff0000; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px;">criteria table to justify the reasons for your placement. <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> Nice job overall, Brooks. Good variety of sources. A few typos to fix, and things to add (see rubric). <span style="color: #800080; display: block; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 19px; text-align: left;"> - Mr. Peyton