Research Paper On The Rosewood Massacre

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The historical even that I chose, is the Rosewood Massacre. Here is a little background about the Rosewood Massacre. The massacre started as an allegation a white woman, named Fannie Coleman Taylor, was raped by a black man. This led Fannie Taylor’s husband to assemble a bunch of white men to catch who they thought to be the attacker, an alleged escaped convict, Jesse Hunter. Fannie Taylor’s husband, James Taylor, assembled people from a near Ku Klux Klan gathering to come to Rosewood where it was said that he’d been hiding by the help of Samuel Carter. Allegedly Carter admitted to helping Jesse Hunter and was forced to take them to where he last saw Hunter. He did so, and when no evidence of Hunter was found, they tortured Samuel Carter, by lynching him, rendering his body with bullets, beating him, and hanging him from a tree. …show more content…

There they beat, stomped, and spat on him, when they were halfway to killing him. A Sheriff Walker came to his rescue, and saying that he’d finish him, before putting him in his car, driving him to Gainesville, which was 55 miles off, where he begged his friend Sheriff J.P. Ramsey to put Carrier in jail and not tell anyone he was there. From there he drove as fast he could back to Sumner, only to see the crazy mob had went back to Rosewood, where they kidnapped a school teacher and took her to