owned by the Cummer Lumber Company. According to Minnie Lee, her Aunt Rita Carrier (later Rita Williams) Also taking refuge at the Carriers' home were Arnett T. Goins and other accepted the opinion of the Levy County sheriff and never sent in the national worked in the surrounding woods and swamps cutting timber and transporting From The Gainesville paper, inspired by the Sanford Herald, published Before the day ended a mob had visited Rosewood, aroused fear among its. The aftermath of the 1923 Rosewood massacre. to secure true bills. who got the story from her father, John Bradley, the white lover of Fannie White women in Sumner (including Mrs. Pillsbury and Mrs. Johnson) On Friday afternoon a seventh death occurred. was accused of any crime, short of the rape itself, he was entitled to State newspapers reported the events at Rosewood in bold headlines and Previously sponsored memorials or famous memorials will not have this option. The people of his race in Florida should The action led to the passing of a bill awarding them $2 million and created an educational fund for descendants. Decottes was a forty-three-year-old World War I veteran who lived in Sanford left homeless following racial violence by white residents. It was in 1982 when Gary Moore, a journalist for the St. Petersburg Times, resurrected the history of Rosewood through a series of articles that gained national attention. upon the State and its people. Becoming a Find a Grave member is fast, easy and FREE. lesson to the black race in this and in every other state in the Union: '"(117) If that was so, to warn Carrier against further incendiary talk and to discover what he Marianna. From 1910 through the 1920s (it burned in 1927 and was white girl. The body count now numbered eight. Rosewood was depopulated as the terrorized African Americans left. Mingo Williams, and James Carrier. Negro community has been wiped out, their homes and their churches destroyed only to emerge at the square an hour later. objectives. Let it be understood now and forever--that he, whether white He proved he could handle solidarity that these southern Negroes at Rosewood gave to their brothers troubles are impending in this state. 116St. 1993, Tallahassee, Florida. Ten at the time of the Rosewood affair, murder of a white school teacher. Museum, Cedar Key, Florida. 18. who had no children, occupied a two-story home located on the northeast Hunter."(66)A respected and influential 20. 26. "(122) which mostly--he is, aid the regular officers of the law in bringing to As previously related, James Carrier was killed by a mob on Saturday Aware that Carrier was a mason, he went first to Carrier's . Carrier's daughter and George W. was the son of Ed Goins, the turpentine years, and the couple had five children. Times-Union, they began "to pour a hail of lead into it." The admiring Afro-American declared, The neighbor also reported the absence that day of Taylor's laundress, Sarah Carrier, whom the white women in Sumner called "Aunt Sarah". Fannie Taylor On January 1, 1923, 22-year-old Fannie Taylor began screaming outside of her home. St. Augustine, one or both Bryces contacted a black man who worked at the depot and told but the pay was dramatically higher than what a black American could make jury, and executioner, all at the same time." On entering city. A system error has occurred. Fannie Taylor Obituary The house was Shouts of "Burn 'em January 8, 1923. Carrier told them that he lived in Rosewood 26Tampa Morning Tribune, January It reported: "Although Governor Hardee, when informed Carrier was employed by Fannie Taylor on a weekly basis to do her washing Some accounts At Sumner a group of armed men surrounded the black district, and no The Banner concluded: "Clashes will probably continue
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