As 1922 comes to an end, blacks and whites live and work side by side, if not in great friendship, then at least in tolerance. With the dawn of a new year the peace explodes into a holocaust of hate, fear and inhumanity.
Neighbor kills neighbor in acts of racial hatred.
In the movie Rosewood, Ving Rhames and Jon Voight star as bystanders, one black, one white, caught in a viscious and deplorable chapter from American history. The truly horrible thing about Rosewood , which is packed with sadness and intense suspense, is that much of it is true. In 1923, there were several days of virtual race war between the 300 land-owning black residents of Rosewood and the white residents of nearby Sumner. The story of the Rosewood killings was resurrected by the media in 1982. In 1994, the state of Florida agreed to pay reparations to some of the survivors.