The Rosewood Paper

In the rosewood and racial violence in January 1923 lynching was common in the u’s but in the south of the united states two years before representative l.c. dyer of the Missouri introduced a bill in the house of representatives to make lynching federal crime. Dyer acted out as a voice for blacks the bill passed the house but not the south they prevented a vote resulting in the measure’s leaving the state to deal with the lynching. Although lynching had died down by sixty-four in 1921, 1922 fifty-seven years ended and lynching had fifty-one victims that were black and six that were white. That something I don’t understand fifty-one black’s not to count the ones that were gunned down and I believe that most of them that died did not have anything to do with it the stuff they deserve was harsh.lynchings,shoutings,burning,and whatever else they was just harsh. In 1923 there were several murdered. The first week of January, rosewood was the center that became a riot, massacre, between the races causing a race war between the two.

In one scene of the movie a little white boy and was friends with a black boy and eveverett’s father did not want him to play or be friends with him in the film the blacks were not slaves so why the couldn’t be friends I guess because of the history between the two race witch blacks did nothing wrong but try to get the same rights as them. Fanny cheats on her husband with a nether man that because she thinks he is having an affair with married women sour they married if both are cheating on each other. in one scene fanny runs out the house drawing attention around her saying she was rapped and beaten then seed she it was by a black man then seed she was just beaten not rapped when she was getting beaten b...

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...l when she did that when the mob came to her house.in one scene the train brakes down on the way to pick up the woman and children because wright made the train conductor go faster. Wright helps the conductor fix the train with a piece he got from his store he Owens. In the report wright did not anything to do with the train to cause it to stop running. The kids and woman made it on aboard the train and as soon the train takes off the her comes Sylvester riding on a horse.in the report Sylvester didn’t go after the train it seed that Sylvester had made it out of rosewood and moved to Texas but was not sure. As the train is going they see all these black people running out the woods and the mob racing after them and the blacks were trying to get on the train with the women and the children. Just to say if it were me yes I would have let some of them jump on aboard