Film Analysis: The Rosewood Massacre

The Rosewood Massacre began as many hate crimes of the 1920’s era. The name Rosewood refers to the color of freshly cut cedar and has its own baseball team, a masonic temple and a few hundred residents. The black and the white residents commuted to Sumner for work where jobs could be found in several turpentine mills. Despite their segregated nature, the town of Rosewood and Sumner got along for most of their history without any violent incidents.One morning on January 1, 1923 in a predominantly small black town in Levy County, a violent racially motivated crime took place. A white woman by the name of Fanny Taylor from Sumner, a nearby predominantly white community, reported to a Florida police officer that she had been beaten by a black male. At the time, she was twenty-two years old and the wife of MillWright.Taylor began screaming that she needed help, and that her baby was in danger. Taylor …show more content…
I was lucky to watch a few clips on youtube and in it, there were a black hero named Mr. Mann, he basically redeemed his people and brought back justice which is far from factual. I would think that Fanny Taylor intentional meant to do what she did. The whites killed many innocent black people to the point where they were doing it for fun I feel like they were trying to paint a point like who is the boss? Who is superior now? Because she saw that the blacks were incapable of defending themselves. Sylvester Carrier own a piano which proves that the blacks residents of Rosewood have a very high morals. There are no exact numbers of deaths but it seems like there were a case developing and it just needed something to heat it up , a motive to take out the massacre of all blacks.So the more they killed the higher their social status increase. Fanny misleading information started the reign of terror. Sarah also worked everyday for the Taylors and she sees everything that Fanny