Rosewod Paper

The Rosewood incident happened in January of 1923 in Rosewood, Florida. Fannie

Taylor a white woman was married to James Taylor, but Fannie was having an affair with an

unknown white man. One day, while Fannie was with her lover, after having intercourse they got

into an altercation. Though it is unclear what the argument was about, it may have been over

Fannie accusing her lover of having an affair with another married woman. Fannie struck her

lover from behind, so he beat her. With Fannie covered in bruises, she knew her husband would

question her about how they got on her. Fannie ran out her home attracting attention from

surrounding neighbors saying she was beaten and raped by a “Nigger”. Once Sheriff Walker

arrived at Fannie Taylor’s house, she told him that a black man just beat her. After, word got

around of what happen to Fannie there was a chain of vicious attacks on blacks which became a

massacre.

John Singleton made Rosewood into a movie, but to make movie directors usually

embellish the story. Singleton did embellish the story with some inaccurate scenes. One

inaccurate thing in Singletons movie was he made a fictional black character named Mr. Mann.

He came to Rosewood looking for land/acres to purchase and left when he heard about the

Fannie incident. Mann only came back, because he heard about the killings of some of the

blacks. Mann was an important character in the movie, but every scene that dealt with him

wasn’t real, because he doesn’t/ didn’t exist. Since Mr. Mann was fictional, when the attacks on

the blacks started a woman named Beulah (Scrappie) was the one who came back for woman and

children to lead them to safety in Gainesville.” Her Aunt Beulah Carrier heard abou...

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...out James Carrier who

was killed by the mob. James went to Mr. Wright for help, so Wright hid James in his home. The

mob came and knew that Mr. Wright was hiding blacks, so they wanted James Carrier to ask him

about Jesse Hunter. “Carrier was interrogated. He probably was questioned and tortured before

being taken to the graves and it was certain that the grilling continued there”, (Rosewood Report

1993, p 22).

Singleton’s Rosewood movie affected my understanding, because Mr. Mann was in majority of the movie. Man was made the heroic figure, but didn’t exist. I think if Singleton chose to recreate Rosewood into a movie, then should of made it as it was in history. It was a good movie, but the Rosewood Report was better, because everything was true. That’s my thoughts and how John Singleton’s movie affected my understanding of the Rosewood report.