Examples Of Social Injustice In Rosewood

The movie, Rosewood is a movie that tells the story of two groups of people (blacks and whites) living in neighboring neighborhoods in Florida. African Americans lived in Rosewood and whites lived in Sumner. The movie started showing the two neighborhoods, Sumner to the left and Rosewood on the right. In Rosewood, one of the landscape that was first showed was the First A.M.E. Church, this I believe to show the African American’s faith and a common ground that they share as a people. The movie also showed the train station in Rosewood where Aunt Sarah Carrier and her grandson were selling fruits, vegetables, and eggs to the whites getting on the train. Once the train rolls by viewers are taken to the town of Sumner, the white neighborhood. In Sumner we see a young white boy and his boar, the boy

Throughout the movie, social injustice is seen. A clear example of this was the search of Jesse Hunter by the sheriff and men of Sumner, after Fanny lied about being assaulted. Shortly after this, the men of Sumner went to Rosewood where they went to the home of Mr. James, dragged him out and eventually lynched him because the hound dogs lead them there. This is a clear example of social injustice because rather than investigating, and putting Mr. James through trial; they said he was guilty of hiding the man that raped Fanny and the reason behind it, as the sheriff said, “hounds don’t lie.” This showed that they trusted and animal over what Sam Carter said simply because he was black and the dog had lead them to his house. Social injustice was seen also when the city of Rosewood was burned down to the ground by angry white mob. Because of a lie by one individual who was white, all the blacks were targeted and forced to run for their lives; those who were captured were killed. No one in Rosewood was safe regardless of whether they were guilty of any crimes of