Massacre at Rosewood: Racially Motivated Violence

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new na-tion, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,” a quote by America’s 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, directly recalling how equality was the catalyst for the conception of America. It’s a universal right that should be known by all, but it was barely an option in our country for the African American faction almost a century ago. Chained, chastised and condemned, the African American had to surpass through radical odds to get to a mediocre amount of respect. When World War I first began, many citizens of America saw it as a seemingly distant European conflict that they couldn’t be bothered with.

Nonetheless, BLM does receive a great number of criticisms. Some people point out that it wouldn 't last. The movement is blamed for its having no coherent structure and no powerful leadership that it will eventually fail. Opponents said that Black Lives Matter actually worsened race relations in America, pointing to the polls that show Americans opinions about race relations being worse in recent years, but BLM supporters asserted just because they have pointed out racism in America doesn 't mean the group was to blame. Republican candidate for President 2016 Chris Christie has turned up his criticism of the Black Lives Matter movement and support the police. He also accused the group of calling for the deaths of police officers. BLM has

The Tulsa Riot of 1921 was a tragic racial riot that resulted in the periodic destruction of Greenwood, a neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma. Nicknamed “Little Africa”, Greenwood was described as a vibrant community, and was built up by African Americans. This community, however, was completely destroyed by a massive mob of white men, whose anger stemmed from rape allegations of an African American man. Before and after the Tulsa Riot occurred, African Americans of the Greenwood community faced social issues due to the prevalence of racism among white men across the nation.

The film Rosewood, made in 1997 was based on the true story of the Rosewood massacre in 1923. Rosewood was a predominantly black town in which the residents owned most of the land and businesses. After her husband severely beats her, a white woman named Fanny Taylor runs into the streets shrieking and accusing a black man of beating and raping her. Violence erupts from the white residents of the Rosewood community as they begin accusing black men of being the perpetrator or hiding the “suspect” (a man named Jesse Hunter.) There were shootings, burning down homes and the public lynchings of black men and women. In light of the attacks, some men such as Sylvester Carter stood up to the violence, as he grew weary of the treatment of his community. The film creates a strong reflection of the status of race and gender relations in the south.

The Tulsa Race Riot is an event that is quite possibly the most unknown and misconstrued piece of history in the United States of America. When and if it is discussed, it’s taken as a single event that happened in Tulsa and was deadly and very destructive. The many theories of what occurred and how it came to the extreme mob like violence taken on Tulsa’s own civilians. The evidence found suggest there were alternative motives in Tulsa for acquiring land that the black civilians held.

The idea of violence is instilled in everyone’s head in some way or another. From the time we are born we are equipped with the idea that we must react when we are upset. When someone affects us in a negative way, there is an idea in our minds that urges us to fight back or cause harm to that person. This idea of causing harm stays with us from childhood until we take our last breath. Since 2013, there have been 242 school shootings within America. Even worse, there have been over a thousand mass shootings in the country resulting in mass casualties. Most recently, one single man murdered fifty-eight people at a concert in Las Vegas, Nevada and injured over 240 others. Although the motive may have been different between these shootings, one thing remains the same for all of them, the act of violence.

Following the victory of Allied forces from World War I, black troops were sent home to a whole other war for Democracy. African Americans still faced many

“From Chicago to Tulsa, to Omaha, East St. Louis, and many communities in between, and family to Rosewood, white mobs pursued what can only be described as a reign of terror against African Americans during the period from 1917 to 1923.” (Rosewood Report, 1995, Pg. 3) Lynching had become very common in the United States, although the number of lynching’s had declined from 64 in 1921 to 57 in 1922. Rosewood was known to some as basically a riot, or a war. I believe Rosewood was known to become a war because the African Americans in Rosewood didn’t want the whites to run them out of the only city they were raised in. So the African Americans refused to leave, and fought back. How would you react if someone tried to run you out of your home, or the city you were raised in? Would you leave? Or fight back? Some incidents that occurred in Rosewood report had to do with Fannie Coleman. She was a married woman with three children, who claimed she was raped and beat by a black male while no one was home. According to Fannie Taylor’s version of events, “A black male came on foot to my house that morning and knocked. When I opened the door the black male proceeded to assault me.” (Rosewood Report, 1995, Pg. 5) None of this was true. She was having a affair with a white man, who beat her, so she lied and made a scene to the community to cover her up. Little do she know how this petty lie will cause many African Americans to die.

How does the case of Ossian and Gladys Sweet reveal the racism of the 1920s and affect other African American people?

With the many conversations about the African-American communities and their issues with gang violence, government assistance, and the lack of jobs in their communities it is clear to say that the American Dream or even a moderate lifestyle was not created for all African Americans and Minorities and since we found a way to be noticed, heard, and felt like they’re rightfully a part of something America wants to now label it “war or Drugs” and “gang Violence” thus creating Gang Injunctions in those predominantly of color communities. Now I am not stating that the violence is not present, innocent lives are not being taken, nor are drugs consuming our communities, but what I am saying is that they act as if there is no other approach that could help clean up the streets, provide piece and harmony among all communities, and solve issues for the betterment of the community. Instead they are removing them from their communities, threatening them from going to their neighborhood, and as a consequence they get jail time, an institution that already houses half if not more than half of our black men. The gang injunction initiative is set up to tear apart the minority communities through driving up the prices and making them move, especially if they have a family member who is under the injunction’s rules. Its ironic how they put them in such enclosed space, while they make suburban home for the economically fit causing them to commute and now they are systematically removing them

Have you come across racial violence? Did you get treated a different way because the color of your skin? In 1923 Rosewood, Florida suffered many racial historic events of a white color mob attacking the black community. Rosewood massacre led to 8 people killed (2 whites, 6 blacks) and about 40-150 African Americans wounded survivors after the tragic event. So how did the attack on African Americans in Rosewood started? A woman by the name Fannie Taylor who was beaten and attacked in her home by her white secret lover puts the blame on a color male. According to Lee Ruth Bradley Davis who father was a victim in the week’s events, grandmother Sarah Carrier and cousin Philomena Carrier who worked for Fannie Taylor all claim it was a white man who visited Fannie home that day. Lee Davis explained “That morning Sarah and Fannie as usual walked from Rosewood and arrived the same time that the white man entered the Taylors house.” (Rosewood Report, 1993, pg12) “The white visitor remained a while, reemerged, and left sometime before twelve o’clock. It is known if James Taylor came home for breakfast, but about noon he returned home and his wife told him a black man had assaulted her.”(Rosewood Report, 1993, pg12) The black community believed the person who abused her was her white lover. According to the Rosewood events in John Singleton’s film Rosewood, Rosewood was a black populated town and Sumner next door were for whites. A man by the name John Wright was the only white

The Leo Frank case was one result in the change of Atlanta. This case was based on a jewish man named Leo Frank being convicted of the murder of thirteen year old, Mary Phagan and this all took place at a pencil factory that he owned. Another incident that had a major prospect on the change of Atlanta was the “Atlanta Race Riot”. Causes of this riot were competition for jobs and white women being assaulted by black men. Whites began to attack blacks, innocent or not and it made an outbreak in the local news. Alonzo Herndon was a successful African American barber who at that time of the riot was at home but the windows of his shop were smashed. The black barbers across the street of Alonzo were said to be dead by the angry mob of white

Various occasions had occurred in and around Jena in the months prior to the Barker ambush, which the media have connected with a claimed acceleration of nearby racial strains. These occasions incorporated the hanging of rope nooses from a tree in the secondary school patio, two brutal showdowns in the middle of white and black young people, and the decimation by flame of the fundamental working of Jena High School. Broad news scope identified with the Jena Six regularly reported these occasions as linked.[1] Federal and ward lawyers finished up from their examinations that appraisal was off base for a percentage of the occasions; for example, the smoldering of the secondary school was an endeavor to pulverize level

According to our book, African American males, aged 17-39, have the highest rate of becoming victims and as a whole; it is the African American population that have the highest risk of victimization as a group(Karmen). Much of the risk of victimization can stem from several characteristics, from where they live, their economic status and their lifestyle. The community they live in may be neighborhoods that are not as well off or are poor, where crime has become a part of the daily living experience. Generations upon generations grow up in the impoverished inner city; crime becomes a learned behavior passed on from the generations before. They quit school and join one of the inner city gangs and why not, their peers are doing it. I see a lot

Pop culture has enlightened and exposed the world to the good, the bad, and the ugly under every circumstance, and people tend to be more provoked, influenced, and intrigued by the bad and the ugly rather than the good. One topic of pop culture that never fails to gain attention is violence in its many forms. While at a state of constant social change and adaptation, the population finds more and more disagreements on the ever-changing and conflicting views and beliefs of each individual, which can lead to violence in some, if not most cases. Hate crimes are crimes or actions motivated by certain disagreements among groups that typically involve some form of violence. This essay will discuss the violence in racial hate crimes against African Americans, because the violence in these hate crimes, both past and present, will help educate individuals about different racial perspectives on the claimed “unfair” or “unequal” treatment of the African American race compared to the treatment of whites in all aspects of society and life. In the United States, African Americans as a race haven been one of the main targets for violent racial and hate crimes. Racial violence and hate crimes against African Americans have been a part of the United States since the very beginning, with a spike in conflict around the 1960s era of the African American Civil Rights Movement, and are even portrayed now in current pop culture sources. Violence against African Americans in films like The Help (a