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About the Real Rosewood Foundation

The Real Rosewood foundation was created in 2002 to develop a Rosewood family connection, expand the search, authenticate history, locate lost survivors/descendants, track down white descendants inviting cultural participation to preserve Rosewood history.

The Rosewood residents lost all of their personal possessions during the massacre and lost their property after the massacre. A few returned in 1957 to claim their property and were told the property had been sold and were ordered to leave town.

Though it has been eighty-seven years since the massacre the descendants are still in touch with their beginning. Each year in July they celebrate family reunions. They are not angry and do not dwell on the past destruction of their hometown. Many families have chosen to excel for higher learning becoming educators, doctors, lawyers, supervisors, engineers, and skilled workers. They never lost focus keeping their instilled work ethics and values out front. The latest movement to brand Rosewood’s history is the interest by the white Rosewood descendants to get involved to help preserve the history.

Long before the Real Rosewood foundation was created my mother strongly suggested researching the real truths of the Rosewood occurrence. The two of us shared the dark secrets of the Rosewood story over the years starting in 1943 when I was only five. For my family keeping the "Leg in our Legacy" was first. The central focal point of the Rosewood story told by my family is centered around its teacher, Mom’s sister. Because Mom was never satisfied with what happened to her Rosewood sister she assigned me the task of authenticating its truths and raising funds to build a Rosewood Museum on the acreage they grew up on.

Mahulda Gussie Brown Carrier and siblings grew up on forty acres, the Charlie L. and Lizzie P. Brown Estate in her quiet hometown of Archer. Today, 29 acres remain in the family. The goal of the foundation is to develop the property to build a Rosewood Museum. May 4, 2004, the Rosewood Historic Marker was dedicated by Governor Jeb Bush and two weeks later the marker was vandalized and taken to Cedar Key. We believe Archer would be the perfect location to remember a museum. Many holocaust museums are built throughout America, not at the site of the holocaust, therefore, we should be allowed to build a Rosewood museum in Archer.

Foundation Goals and Members

The Foundation is dedicated to building museum in memory of Rosewood and is sponsoring a scholarship in honor of Mahulda Gussie Brown Carrier the third teacher employed by the Rosewood school and the first and only Black female principal employed in Levy County. The Foundation is sponsoring the writing of a play "Rosewood on my Mind" and is working to produce a documentary. The President of the Foundation, Lizzie Jenkins, is writing her life story of how she unlocked the mystery of Rosewood. The Foundation is also producing the songs, "Rosewood, Florida" and "Rosewood No More". To help the foundation in its mission donations are accepted and encouraged. Please help the foundation so Rosewood, its people, and the lessons learned at Rosewood are not forgotten.

REAL ROSEWOOD FOUNDATION, INC
Founding Board Officers 2003

Honorary Board Members

1. Mary Hall Daniels      Rosewood Survivor
2. Robin A. Mortin          Rosewood Survivor
3. Richard B. Brown      Rosewood Descendant

Presidents Work

Established the Real Rosewood Foundation, Inc., a nonprofit organization

Wrote two Rosewood books

Wrote two Rosewood songs

Co-wrote the script for the Rosewood Historical Marker

Invited Governor Jeb Bush to Rosewood to dedicate the historic marker

Organize two healing ceremonies in Rosewood, January 1 2003 and 2004

Hosted several Rosewood bus tours

Students Interviews

More than ten newspaper articles

Interviewed by television and radio

Spoke at schools, colleges, universities, institutions, churches, and organization

Developed a Website

Developed a Rosewood Power Point presentation

Proved that Mahulda Gussie Brown Carrier earned the 2000 Great Floridian Award

Interviewed by Ted Koppel and starred in his documentary, “The Last Lynching”

Researched Levy county census identifying Rosewood citizens

1. Documented Rosewood marriages from 1882-1923
2. Confirmed Rosewood families
3. Confirmed the Rosewood burial cemetery

Researched the Rosewood school teachers, salary, students, parents.

Confirmed the Sumner school teachers, students, and parents

Confirmed the Rosewood residents

Rosewood Videos and Documentary

Rosewood Power Point
Documentary: The Reel Rosewood