Rosewood
In Levy County, FL, blacks and whites live uncomfortably but serenely beside each other in the towns of Sumner and Rosewood. The movie starts out by showing the very clean town of Rosewood, FL. In the beginning they show the Rosewood First A.M.E. Church, a for sale sign for 5 acres of land to be auctioned off on January 1, 1923 (New Year's Day) by J. Bradley, Prince Hall, No. 6 which is the school for black children, different houses, farms, and the Carrier house. The movie also shows the train station in Rosewood where Sarah Carrier and her grandson are selling fruits, vegetables, and eggs to the whites getting on the train and one of the heroes of Rosewood, the train conductor Mr. Bryce. Once the train rolls by we come up on Sumner, FL, the white neighborhood in the movie. The railroad tracks separate the 2 towns. It doesn't look as clean as Rosewood does. A boy and his father hunt a boar and carry it out of the woods while the father chastises his son about playing with a colored boy. The sheriff rides up and asks him if he sees a black man that escaped off the chain gang and tells him to keep a look out for him and not to shoot him. I chose this movie because it was very interesting to me when I first saw
It was good because it described, in the movie, the central part of the real massacre. As the blacks attitudes changed, the lynching started to rise in the South, blacks were being laid off now that he white men were back, black war veterans found no work, whites in the northern cities were hostile to the black migrants. They took them and laid them in the road and plowed the furrows, with a big field-plow, extra big field-plow and a fire plow. This project gave me a chance to learn the real story behind the movie, even if it all wasn't accurate, and even if the survivors didn't agree with the tale of the movie itself. Rarely they resulted to violence, such as, public beatings, tarring and feathering, arson, and lynching. They used the real people's names in the movie and the plot of the movie was accurate. I always wanted to know if it was a real town in Florida or did someone make it up just to make money. Later on the train Sylvester rides up and lets his family know he is alive and he survived by being carried out by the whites in his mothers coffin. The other women and children run into the woods, by order of Sylvester, to hide from the "mob" and try to survive. I learned the real story of Rosewood. In chapter 24 it explains how the new Ku Klux Klan was established in 1915 in Stone Mountain, GA after the old Klan died in the 1870's. But a survivor by the name of Arnett Turner Goins, denied that there was an open grave, and to this day no such burial has been found. In the movie they show 20-30 people in a mob, but in actuality the mobs ranged from 400-500 white men.
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