#HISTORY OF BLACKHEAD SIGNPOST ROAD MOVIE#
The historical marker was installed only in 2004, despite the fact Hollywood, our most effective national memorializer, had made a movie version in 1997. As recently as the ’90s, plans for a monument were shelved because the locals powers disagreed on how much to spend. To finally rid the area of blacks once and for all, the white savages burned Rosewood down.įor a long time, what happened in Rosewood was mostly whispered because no sign or museum in the place itself dared to summon the story. Rosewood residents had to hide in the woods like animals, only to be cut down when they finally emerged. They didn’t just kill people (mostly black, but some whites who tried to stop the slaughter, too), but they hunted them for a week.
One day a white person accused a black man of doing something terrible, which happens a lot when scapegoats are required, at which point hundreds of the whites exploded into a bloodthirsty rage. The tale is as convoluted as it is painful, but the short version is that there were once two towns, one mostly white and one black (Rosewood). That sign is pretty much all there is to tell the story. Today I visited Rosewood, Florida, a town with a past so tangled that its historical marker requires two sides to tell it. Rosewood's marker: Half the story, but whose half?
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