African American Massacres in the U.S.A.
This guide provides information and links to websites that detail the many racially inspired slaughters of African Americans in the United States of America by those considered white Americans.
Rosewood Massacre
Image Credit: Rosewood Marker (Obverse), Rosewood, FL from https://digitalcommons.unf.edu/historical_architecture_main/4728/
Rosewood
Books in the SJR State Library collection
The Rosewood Massacre by ISBN: 9780813052250Publication Date: 2018-01-16This book explores how digital technologies are revealing fresh information regarding the tragic history of Rosewood, Florida, and demonstrates how racial violence in the past relates to social inequality in the present
African-Americans in Florida by Call Number: E185.93.F5 M37 1993ISBN: 1561640301Publication Date: 1993-10-01Brief essays profile over 50 African Americans during four centuries of Florida history. Traces the role African Americans played in the discovery, exploration, and settlements of Florida, through the Civil War to the Civil Rights movement. For classroom use: one free teacher's manual with the purchase of three books.
Database Articles
- Dye, R. Thomas. "Rosewood, Florida: the destruction of an African American community." The Historian, vol. 58, no. 3, 1996, p. 605+. Gale Academic OneFile, https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A18516921/AONE?u=lincclin_sjrcc&sid=AONE&xid=49d58229. Accessed 13 July 2020.
- Finan, Eileen. “Delayed Justice: The Rosewood Story.” Human Rights, vol. 22, no. 2, Spring 1995, pp. 8–30. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=a9h&AN=9505100089&site=ehost-live.
- WILLIAMS, JASMIN K. “Remembering Rosewood.” New York Amsterdam News, vol. 104, no. 1, 3 Jan. 2013, pp. 6–36. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&AuthType=shib&db=a9h&AN=84673914&site=ehost-live.
- Dye, R. Thomas. “The Rosewood Massacre: History and the Making of Public Policy.” The Public Historian, vol. 19, no. 3, 1997, pp. 25–39. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3379554. Accessed 13 July 2020.
- Newman, Richard. “Rosewood Revisited.” Transition, no. 80, 1999, pp. 32–39. JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/2903166. Accessed 13 July 2020.
Websites
- Rosewood MassacreThe History Channel
- Digging up RosewoodUniversity of Central Florida
- Jan. 1, 1923: Rosewood MassacreThe Zinn project
- Rosewood Heritage & VR ProjectThis website showcases ongoing research into the community of Rosewood, Florida – a majority African American town destroyed during a 1923 race riot. This project draws on archaeology, documentary research, oral history, and interactive media to investigate the history of Rosewood and share it with the public.