Rosewood, Florida: The destruction of an African American community

Historian

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 605-622

  Dye, R Thomas ^a  

^a FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 61249650094     PISSN: 00182370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6563.1996.tb00967.x     Document Type: Review

References (55)

1. Gary Moore, "The Rosewood Massacre," St. Petersburg Times, 27 July 1982
2. R. Thomas Dye et al., A Documented History of the Incident Which Occurred at Rosewood, Florida in 1923: A Report Submitted to the Florida Board of Regents (Tallahassee, December 1993).
3. A. Cash Koeniger, "Climate and Southern Distinctiveness," Journal of Southern History 54 (February 1988): 21-24
4. Sheldon Hackney, "Southern Violence," American Historical Review 74 (February 1969): 906-25
5. John Shelton Redd, "To Live and Die in Dixie: A Contribution to the Study of Southern Violence," Political Science Quarterly 86 (September 1971): 429-43
6. Earl Louis Brown, Why Race Riots?: Lessons from Detroit (New York, 1977)
7. Paul Finkelman, ed., Lynching, Racial Violence, and Law (New York, 1992).
8. Elliot Rudwick, Race Riot in East St. Louis, July 2, 1917 (Urbana, Ill., 1982)
9. William M. Tuttle, Race Riot: Chicago in the Red Summer of 1919 (New York, 1970)
10. John Hope Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, 4th ed. (New York, 1974), 350
11. George B. Tindall, The Emergence of the New South, 1910-1945 (Baton Rouge, 1967), 143-218
12. David Chambers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan (Durham, 1987)
13. U.S. House, Special Committee Authorized by Congress to Investigate the East St. Louis Riots, 65th Cong., 2d sess. (Washington, D.C., 1918)
14. "700 Federal Troops Quiet Omaha," New York Times, 3 August 1919.
15. "Lynch 4 Florida Negroes," New York World, 6 October 1920
16. "As Negro Houses Burned in Ocoee, Great Mass of Ammunition is Exploded," Orlando Morning Sentinel, 4 November 1920
17. "Eight Known to be Dead," Orlando Evening Reporter-Star, 3 November 1920
18. "Riddled with Bullets, Fate of Negro taken by Wauchula Mob," Jacksonville Times-Union, 12 February 1921
19. "Mob at Perry, Florida," New York Evening Post, 9 December 1922
20. Walter T. Howard, "Vigilante Justice: Extra-Legal Executions in Florida, 1930-1940" (Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, 1987).
21. Dudley Sady Johnson, "The Railroads of Florida 1865-1900" (Ph.D. diss., Florida State University, 1971), 30-49
22. State of Florida, First Annual Report of the Railroad Commission, 1 March 1898
23. Florida State Gazetteer and Business Directory, vol. 1 (New York, 1887), 386
24. U.S. Bureau of the Census, The Seventh and Eighth Census of the United States-Population, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C., n.d., 1850 and 1860 censuses.
25. R. Thomas Dye, "Race, Ethnicity and the Politics of Economic Development: A Case Study of Cedar Key, Florida" (master's thesis, Florida State University, 1992), 43
26. Floyd Monk, "Cedar Key and the Pencil Industry," transcript, Cedar Key Historical Society, n.d.
27. Florida State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 386
28. Alford G. Bradbury and E. Story Hallock, A Chronology of Florida Post Offices, Handbook No. 2, Florida State Archives, 1962
29. Dye, "Race, Ethnicity and the Politics of Economic Development," 42-60
30. Charles C. Fishburne, The Cedar Keys in Decline: 1887-1890 (Cedar Key, Fl., 1980)
31. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Twelfth Census of the United States-Population, Levy County, Precinct 9, n.d.; 1900 census
32. Stephen F. Hanlon, Atty., "Sworn Deposition of Minnie Lee Langley," 5 May 1992, 12, Miami; the author would like to thank the Holland and Knight Law firm for providing the depositions of Minnie Lee Langley and Lee Ruth Davis.
33. Minnie Lee Langley, deposition; Lee Ruth Davis, deposition; for information on plank houses in Levy County during this period, see Ruth Verill, Romantic and Historic Levy County (Gainesville, 1976)
34. Annette Goins Shakir, "Rosewood Family History" (manuscript, Tougaloo College, Tougaloo, Miss., 1993), 1.
35. The condition of Fannie Taylor was described in the Washington Post, 6 January 1923
36. "Ku Klux Klan in Gainesville Gave New Year Parade," Florida Times Union, 3 January 1923
37. Cedar Key Historical Society Oral History Project, "Interview with Jason McElveen," Cedar Key, 1982.
38. Richard Hixon, Special Master's Final Report Regarding HB 591 (Rosewood), Florida House, Tallahassee, 24 March 1994
39. Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Report to the Legislature of the Florida Department of Law Enforcement Investigation of the Rosewood Violence of 1923, Tallahassee, 17 January 1995.
40. Jacksonville Journal, 5 January 1923.
41. Florida Times-Union, 6 January 1923; Jason McElveen, interview.
42. New York Times, 5 January 1923.
43. George De Cergueira Leite Zarur, "Seafood Gatherers in Mullet Springs: Economic Rationality and the Social System" (Ph.D. diss., University of Florida, 1975), 51.
44. "Not Justifiable," Gainesville Sun, 8 January 1923.
45. St. Petersburg Evening Independent 5 January 1923.
46. New York Amsterdam News, 10 January 1923.
47. State of Florida, Report of the Secretary of State, part 1 (Tallahassee, 1923), 122.
48. Gainesville Daily Sun, 7 January 1923.
49. Lee Ruth Davis, deposition; Florida Times-Union, 6 and 8 January 1923
50. Florida Department of Law Enforcement, Report.
51. St. Petersburg Times, 5 January 1923.
52. Tindall, The Emergence of the New South, 172
53. Franklin, From Slavery to Freedom, 336-40
54. Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the Ku Klux Klan, passim.
55. Stephen B. Oates, The Fires of Jubilee: Nat Turner's Fierce Rebellion (New York, 1975), 144-45.