Owed to Rosewood

Original Title

Owed to Rosewood

Devised Title

Owed to Rosewood

Date

1993-02-21

Creator

Lifestyle Sun Sentinel See all items with this value

Margo Harakas See all items with this value

Contributor

Unknown

Description

This February 1993 Lifestyle Sun Sentinel article was written by Margo Harakas. Harakas interviewed a survivor of the 1923 Rosewood Massacre, Lee Ruth Davis. Davis was 7 when her father woke her in the dead of night to take her to John Wright’s home, a white man who harbored the Black residents of Rosewood while the mob raged on outdoors.

Primary Subject

1900-1999 See all items with this value

Activism See all items with this value

Civil rights See all items with this value

Justice See all items with this value

Location

Tallahassee

Leon County

Florida

United States of America

Type

Textual document

Medium

Paper

Format

PDF

HBCU Identifier

MS_0001_01_0003

HCAC Identifier

HCAC.FAMU.0209

Rights

All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of MEBA is an infringement of the copyright law.

Contributing Institution

Florida A&M University

Collection

Rosewood Massacre Collection See all items with this value

Language

English

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