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Dewey Decimal Number: 975.977 EAN: 9780399141478 ISBN: 0399141472 Label: Putnam Adult Manufacturer: Putnam Adult Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 373 Publication Date: February 07, 1996 Publisher: Putnam Adult Studio: Putnam Adult Related Items:
Editorial Review: 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. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - A Story That Must Be ToldYou 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 ... Read More Rating:  - heart-wrenching story of survivalI 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 ... Read More 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 ... Read More 
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