What set rural Rosewood apart was that the violence inflicted there all but wiped a town from the map. “It’s a dreadful, dreadful story,” says Davis, now 77 and living in Miami.

Mahulda Carrier was Rosewood's school teacher for eight years. On Jan. 1, 1923, a white married woman in a nearby town falsely accused Carrier's husband of raping her.

Racial violence obliterated the Florida town of Rosewood 100 years ago. This month, commemorations are planned as descendants speak about the need to keep Rosewood alive.

In 1994, then-Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles signed a bill to compensate survivors and their descendants. Florida House Bill 591 is considered a model for reparations for Black Americans.

January marked 100 years since racist violence destroyed Rosewood. Now, would discussing it run afoul of new laws limiting how race, history, gender and sexuality are taught in Florida classrooms?

CLEVELAND, Ohio — I doubt we’ll ever know the macabre truth of what happened in Rosewood, Florida, on the first of January, 100 years ago. We won’t learn about it on TV, and our children won ...

Rosewood became the site of a horrific massacre 100 years ago, during the first week of January in 1923. This rural town was one of several Black communities in the US that suffered racial ...