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"Like Judgment Day is the true story of the ruin and redemption of a town called Rosewood, where, on New Year's Day, 1923, a white mob descended, burning houses, killing uncounted numbers of black men and women and driving the rest of the inhabitants away forever. For over seventy years the events in Rosewood remained buried, the truth unacknowledged. This book - which contains the complete text of Like Judgment Day as well as commentary and illustrations...
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January 1, 1923 - Rosewood Florida, a thriving African-American community in the Jim Crow South, was torched to oblivion by the infamous spark of one white woman's lie. Six innocent victims and untold gallons of blood and tears were left in the wake of the weeklong racist rampage that followed. Terrorized families were left homeless and on the run. Exactly one hundred years later, another spark has begun to burn: Hope. Here in the still wild heart...
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"Rosewood was a successful, nearly all-black town in January 1923. Violence erupted when a white mob engaged Rosewood's black residents in a gun battle following a white woman's allegation that a black man had attacked her. After the battle, the town was abondoned by its black citizens. Eight people, two whites and six blacks, were killed during the incident."--Back cover of container
8) Rosewood
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In 1923 a black town in Florida was burned to the ground, its people murdered because of a lie. Some escaped and survived because of the courage and compassion of a few extraordinary people.
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