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Old 06-16-2020, 06:13 PM
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Rosewood Massacre - HISTORY

Rosewood, Florida - Wikipedia

Rosewood massacre - Wikipedia

There was one of these massacres of African-Americans not too far from what would become the Villages. This was in 1923 in Rosewood.
Thanks for posting about Rosewood. I’m glad it has been recorded albeit delayed. The Code of Silence is a real phenomenon which effectively protected folks back then but also has sadly denied posterity from learning & knowledge. Their need for restoring safety and security made silence an absolute necessity if they wanted to have any future. Their lives depended on never talking about any of it again.

We need to know a lot more about our complete American and human history if we are going to ever more fully understand each other.

One fact that stood out to me was the date of the Massacre—1923. That was fully 58 years AFTER the end of slavery/Civil war.