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Product Description: Details the 1923 massacre of black inhabitants of the small Florida town of Rosewood by a white lynch mob, tracing the lives of survivors and describing the unprecedented award given to survivors and their descendants by the state of Florida some seventy years after the rampage. 30,000 first printing.
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Rating: - A Story That Must Be Told
You will amazed at how an incident at ugly as Rosewood could be dismissed by those involved. No one - not the survivors, not the attackers - wanted to discuss what happened.... until one of their own started working to put the pieces together.
D'Orso does a great job of telling all sides of the story. You'll come to admire the families who maintained their dignity even after being run off from their homes, and you'll wonder why it took so long for the story to be told. This is a story of an ugly chapter in the history of race relations in this country. It is an excellent book that can make you both sad and angry at the same time.
Rating: - heart-wrenching story of survival
I read this book in one day, and I don't think I'll ever forget the people of or the place Rosewood, FL. The author does an excellent job of using flash backs and the investigation years later to make this an unforgettable book. It never ceases to amaze me on how horrid the history of this country can be. I thought the ending of the book showing the kind of people who live on the site of Rosewoood now are so much like the ones who destroyed this town. I felt myself holding my breath wondering are the survivors going to get what the state owes them? And then realizing nothing could repay them for the horror they experienced at the hands of a disgusting bloodthirsty mob. I recommend this book to anyone who wants the truth, this book is not just for African-Americans but for everyone.
Rating: - Recaptures a long-overlooked historic event
"This much is known," writes Michael D'Orso, beginning a chilling 13-page description of the destruction of a small, black Florida town in the first week of 1923. Incensed by a white woman's hysterical tale of being attacked by a black man, men from surrounding villages headed for Rosewood-a "black town in a white place in a white time"-shot every African-American they could find and torched every home they saw. The carnage lasted seven days. When lawmen got around to showing up, "there was no one left to save. The town was empty. . . . A week had passed since the bells of Rosewood rang in the new year. Now those bells lay smoldering among the twisted steel and blackened ruins, the charred carcasses of cats and dogs, the smoking soot of a place that would never exist again."
Even the casual history buff repeatedly encounters similar stories from post-slavery America: grotesque murders, massacres and lynchings-through the mid-1960s-committed with white neighbors' grinning encouragement and the tacit approval of law enforcement. And yet the story of this rural community carries the power to shock anew. It was a crime against not just flesh and bone but *a community*, a crime that tore up a people's history by the roots. D'Orso's beautifully drawn "Like Judgment Day" resurrects the community as well as its destruction, showing us the faces and lives of those who survived and helping us fit Rosewood into the quilt of our history.
After the prologue, D'Orso picks up the story nearly six decades later, in 1982, when a reporter for the St. Petersburg Times approached a 39-year-old clerk named Arnett Doctor and asked him about his family's connection to Rosewood. Doctor's mother had told him about surviving the killing spree, and the reporter's questions spurred him to devote his life to uncovering the truth about Rosewood. Doctor-a black man "born in the '40s, come of age in the '50s and '60s, all in the Deep South, enough right there to fuel a lifetime of fury"-found the story true but obscured: Afte! r the initial headlines and articles (most based on the outrageously slanted local sheriff's report), the tale had disappeared. "There was no mention of it in any book on Florida's past, no record in any account of the region's racial relations," D'Orso writes. "Like the remains of a rock thrown into a pond, the record of Rosewood faded from a single splash, to scattered ripples, to stillness." Doctor began searching for a lawyer to seek reparations for the survivors and descendants but ran into surprising resistance-few people "could believe ... Read More
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