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Memorable


Rob Shinnick

Posted on May 02, 2010 at 03:47 AM

This was a pretty haunting piece. The music added greatly to the feeling of the story.

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Caption: Rosewood survivor Minnie Lee Langley
  • "Between Civil War and Civil Rights -6: Rosewood Reborn (1923 --"
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  • Summary: It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman in a small Florida (saw-)milltown claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the week's end, hundreds of armed white men had burned the nearby village of Rosewood, and forced its black inhabitants to flee for their lives. Seven decades later, survivors won a claim against the state of Florida. It's the only known case of reparations paid to victims of mass racial violence in U.S. history--and a pivotal event in reclaiming America's hidden history of racial terror.

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