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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, […]

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