Author Archive
Monday, June 4th, 2007
Survivors and Descendants Return
Survivors, descendents return to Rosewood seeking healing
By DIRK LAMMERS, Associated Press, 2004
ROSEWOOD — It’s been 81 years since Robie Allenetta Robinson Mortin set foot here, but little is left of the […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Massacre Remembered
Ceremony to mark 81st anniversary of Rosewood massacre
By Associated Press
January 1, 2004
ROSEWOOD — A “peace and healing” ceremony marking the 81st anniversary of the Rosewood massacre, in which a […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Woman Chronicles Rosewood
By KAREN VOYLES, Sun staff writer
Photo by Rob C. Witzel / The Gainesville Sun
izzie Jenkins has spent a decade sorting through […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Tragic Rosewood Story
Woman tells tragic story of relatives’ Rosewood ordeal
By Chantrell Bruton
Contributing Writer
Devastation, death and silence.For more than 50 years, Lizzie Polly Robinson Jenkins kept silent about those aspects of her family’s history.
But as she led a tour of six students and two UF employees Saturday […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Group Travels to Mark Massacre’s 75th Anniversary
Group travels to historic Rosewood to mark massacre’s 75th anniversary
By Rawchayl Sahadeo
Contributing Writer
Twenty-eight students and two professors boarded a bus Saturday to relive a Florida massacre.This year marks the 75th anniversary of a white Sumner woman’s claim […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Rosewood Descendant Dies
Sun staff report
ARCHER - Theresa Brown Robinson, Archer’s oldest community leader and a descendant of the infamous Rosewood Massacre, died Monday at her home. She was 95.
Mrs. Robinson had sheltered her sister, Maulda Brown Carrier, at her home in Archer after Carrier fled the violence in Rosewood in 1923. The massacre of African-Americans, which was […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Rosewood Reality
Author tells her family’s Rosewood reality
By DOREEN VIANZON
Contributing Writer
Even though the sleepy town of Rosewood lost its life and inhabitants in a 1923 massacre, Liz Jenkins said Wednesday night she is trying to […]
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Monday, June 4th, 2007
Rumors Dispelled
Author seeks to dispel `Rosewood’ errors
By Paul Ghiotto
Alligator Writer
Hollywood has once again become the bane of the historian.The Rosewood massacre of 1923 has been in the public eye recently, but not the correct history, […]
