Florida’s Rosewood Massacre 100 years later
For most of her life, Lizzie Robinson Jenkins has been sharing the story of her aunt, Mahulda Carrier. It’s a narrative that, for a lot of years, nobody in her household talked about as a result of it was too painful. Jenkins is the founding father of The Real Rosewood Foundation, a company devoted to sharing the story of the racial violence that befell in Rosewood, Florida, on New Year’s Day, 1923. Mahulda Carrier was Rosewood’s faculty instructor for eight years. On Jan. 1, 1923, a white married girl in a close-by city falsely accused Carrier’s husband of raping her. When he would not confess to the crime, the offended mob interrogated Carrier about her husband’s whereabouts. Jenkins advised WPBF 25’s Tiffany Kenney, “They put a rope around her neck, put her in the car, and took her to Sumner. They said, ‘We are going to ask you one more time. Where was your husband last night?’ With the guns pointing at her head, she escalated her voice and said, ‘My husband was at home with me all night long.’ And they said, ‘Oh, bigoted bitch, let’s rape her.’… and they did exactly that.”Together: Project CommUNITYThe Levy County Sheriff rescued Mahulda Carrier and bought her and different on a midnight practice out of Rosewood, which is about an hour southwest of Gainesville. Jenkins stated, “They needed to get out of town with whatever they were wearing. Some of them didn’t have sufficient clothes, and it was go, no shoes. Some of them, I understand, started walking through the swamp, never returned, never saw them again.” As for her aunt, Jenkins stated she lived her life in concern for the remainder of of the 25 years she lived. “She changed her name five times. She moved more than 10 times. She was always looking over her shoulder.” WACTH: Project CommUNITY Black History Month Special Through her basis, Jenkins desires to verify the story of Rosewood is rarely forgotten. “Mom said, ‘Preserve it, authenticate it, and never let it die because we are history.’ And without history, she would tell me, you’re nothing. If you don’t have any history, you can’t change. Tell people for the next generation. It’s not Black history. It’s America’s history.”For extra information go to: https://www.rosewoodflorida.com/
For most of her life, Lizzie Robinson Jenkins has been sharing the story of her aunt, Mahulda Carrier. It’s a narrative that, for a lot of years, nobody in her household talked about as a result of it was too painful.
Jenkins is the founding father of The Real Rosewood Foundation, a company devoted to sharing the story of the racial violence that befell in Rosewood, Florida, on New Year’s Day, 1923.
Mahulda Carrier was Rosewood’s faculty instructor for eight years. On Jan. 1, 1923, a white married girl in a close-by city falsely accused Carrier’s husband of raping her. When he would not confess to the crime, the offended mob interrogated Carrier about her husband’s whereabouts. Jenkins advised WPBF 25’s Tiffany Kenney, “They put a rope around her neck, put her in the car, and took her to Sumner. They said, ‘We are going to ask you one more time. Where was your husband last night?’ With the guns pointing at her head, she escalated her voice and said, ‘My husband was at home with me all night long.’ And they said, ‘Oh, bigoted bitch, let’s rape her.’… and they did exactly that.”
Together: Project CommUNITY
The Levy County Sheriff rescued Mahulda Carrier and bought her and different on a midnight practice out of Rosewood, which is about an hour southwest of Gainesville. Jenkins stated, “They needed to get out of town with whatever they were wearing. Some of them didn’t have sufficient clothes, and it was go, no shoes. Some of them, I understand, started walking through the swamp, never returned, never saw them again.” As for her aunt, Jenkins stated she lived her life in concern for the remainder of of the 25 years she lived. “She changed her name five times. She moved more than 10 times. She was always looking over her shoulder.”
WACTH: Project CommUNITY Black History Month Special
Through her basis, Jenkins desires to verify the story of Rosewood is rarely forgotten. “Mom said, ‘Preserve it, authenticate it, and never let it die because we are history.’ And without history, she would tell me, you’re nothing. If you don’t have any history, you can’t change. Tell people for the next generation. It’s not Black history. It’s America’s history.”
For extra information go to: https://www.rosewoodflorida.com/