Expulsions & sundown towns
The destruction of Rosewood
1-7 January 1923Rosewood, FL
White mobs burned the Black town of Rosewood to the ground over a week in January 1923. Its residents fled and never returned; seventy-one years later Florida became the first state to compensate survivors of a racial massacre.
- People killed
- 8–30
- People displaced
- 200
The marker sits at the centre of the place named, because the records do not fix a single spot.