Race Riots: Rosewood and Black Wall Street

1. Two distinctions that made the neighbors envious is attempting to reclaim and rebuild the community.
2. Greenwood was called little Africa because of how so much more black population it was than whites.
3. I think Greenwood was nicknamed "Black Wall Street" because that's where all of the black people would go to start a business or company.
4. The National Guards needed up arresting 6,000 blacks who were released by a white employer.
5. Rosewood was a pretty happy town with a lot of black owned shops they had everything.
6. Dick Rollin assaulted a white women. What makes this lynching different than the other ones is that a group of black people tried to stop this. They weren't afraid of the whites and were ready to retaliated if needed too.
7. They remember seeing ashes, burning houses and listening to gun shots everywhere.
8. I think it took over 60 years for Rosewood to be uncover because white people didn't want the story to come out, it would make the white community look bad.
9. Ms. Minnie Lee remembered the massacre as a big blaze of fire.
10. The accident that caused the massacre is when a white women accused a black man of raping her.
11. 1000 to 1500 people had joined the mob. They would set the house on fire and kill every person that ran out.
12. John wright was remembered because he opened his home to women and children who were endangered. He also was able to send a message to the train station telling them that there was a fired. He owned one of the general stores.
13. Minnie Lee didn't want her family to know that she had to run into the woods and stay their for a week and suffer.
14. The Greenwood community really just tried to forget about the massacre and put it in their past. I think they were able to move forward because they know that something like that will never happen again.