This piece belongs to the series "Between Civil War and Civil Rights"

Produced by Alan Lipke/ Listening Between the Lines, Inc.

Other pieces by Alan Lipke

Summary: It began on New Years Day 1923, when a white woman in a small Florida (saw-)milltown claimed that a black man had attacked her. By the week's end, hundreds of armed white men had burned the nearby village of Rosewood, and forced its black inhabitants to flee for their lives. Seven decades later, survivors won a claim against the state of Florida. It's the only known case of reparations paid to victims of mass racial violence in U.S. history--and a pivotal event in reclaiming America's hidden history of racial terror.