Rosewood Massacre

The Rosewood Massacre was a gruesome event in January 1923, where hundreds of white men burnt the mostly-black city of Rosewood to the ground because a white woman got raped. It disturbs me that a group of white men picked a random black person and lynched him even though he didn’t do the crime. The saddest part of this event is that the perpetrators were never brought before a judge until 1993, 70 years later. It shows how lynching and the gruesome murders of black people was a common thing back then and the authorities wouldn’t do anything about it. The whole town was burned to the ground and abandoned, and it was no big deal to the country. It was just a brief news story and was then forgotten until the early 90’s.