SURVIVORS
Rosewood survivors are those persons who were living in Rosewood (1923) at the time of the Rosewood Massacre. Four of the seven Rosewood survivors testified at the 1994 Rosewood Hearings in Tallahassee. All survivors received compensation from the State of Florida.
The Last Rosewood Survivor Dies
The Rosewood massacre occurred in Levy County in 1923.At the age of 98, Mary Hall Daniels (1919-2018), the last survivordied on May 2, 2018. She was a child of 3 when a white mob destroyed her home and the predominantly African-American community of Rosewood.
Rosewood Survivors
The survivors listed below and their descendants were recipents of moniesfrom the 1994 Florida State Rosewood Claims Bill. Residents andtheir descendants who were evacuated or not in Rosewood on January 1923,also received some compensation from the claims bill.Currently their are five of the ten listed survivors alive,and estimated 400 descendants to date. There may be other survivors anddescendants that are yet not known to Rosewood Researchers.
Minnie Lee Langley, Lee Ruth Davis, and Janie Bradley Black are the peoplein this Rosewood video. Minnie and Lee Ruth are deceased. Only Janie is living today.
The Rosewood Massacre At A Glance by The Rosewood Forum
This research book by the Rosewood Forum synthesizes more than five years of ongoing documentation. This educational book relates the Rosewood Massacre to the Florida Legal System of Justice in 1923. In addition to the Florida 1994 landmark decision to pay restitution to the ten Rosewood survivors, this research has yielded some truly special results, including a Newberry, Florida, lynching and other unpublished massacres. This factual book was update in 2018. change seven to ten Rosewood survivors. The Rosewood Massacre At A Glance
"I changed my name, I was afraid that the whites might track me down and kill me!"
Lonnie Jefferson Carroll (1914-1997)
The son of James and Emma Carrier, he changed his last name to Carroll after the Rosewood Massacre. At the time of the Rosewood hearings, he was in a nursing home in New Smyrna Beach, Florida, where he died.
"We faced overwhelming odds!"
Mary Hall Daniels (1919-2018)
The youngest child of Charles Bacchus and Mary Davis Hall's nine children, she was three years old when Rosewood was attacked. She lived in Jacksonville Florida.
In 2015 Daniels was honored at Edward Waters College Jacksonville.
College honors
living legendsby News4Jax story.
She died as the
last survivorof the Rosewood Massacre.
"Father forgive them, they know not what they do, I must not be bitter!"
Lee Ruth Bradley Davis (1915-1993)
One of the original two Rosewood bill claimants, along with Minnie Lee Mitchell Langley. Her parents were John Wesley and Virginia Carrier Bradley. She was seven years old at the time of the Rosewood attack. She died in 1993, as the second claims bill was taking shape. She lived in Miami Florida. AFlorida town has died in a
Racial Firestorm70 Years Ago.
"They took my early education and everything that I should have had!"
Willie Eaverly Evans (1907-2007)
Born in Sanford, Florida, near Orlando. His mother died when he was four years old and he moved to Rosewood to live with his grand parents, Ransom and Julie Edwards. He turned sixteen a week before the Rosewood attack. He lived in Sanford Florida. HE accepts his
compensation
as a public apology. Posted on April 2, 1995 by Nancy Feigenbaum of The Orlando Sentinel.
Orlando Sentinel pdf
Associate Press pdf
Willie Evans is 100 in this
article
by Andrew Skeritt published on June 4, 2018 at Tampa Bay Times.
pdf format
It is an update of the original published on July 20, 2007.
"The Moon was shining just as bright as it could be."
Arnett Turner Goins (1915-2002)
At the age of eight, he was one of the children in their grandmother's, Sara Robinson Carrier, house when she was killed. He and other children hid in the cold woods during the Rosewood Massacre. He testifies at the Rosewood hearings in Tallahassee February, 1994. He resided in St. PetersburgFlorida. He
diedat the age of 87.
"God was all around us!"
Wilson Hall (1916-1998)
One of Mary and Charles Bacchus Hall's nine children, he was seven years old at the time of the Rosewood Massacre. He testified at the Rosewood hearings in Tallahassee, February, 1994. He lived in Hilliard Florida. He died at the age of 82. His
Obituary.pdf format
"Rosewood was not or rarely discussed outside of the family!"
Dorothy Goins Hosey (1919-2005)
She was two years old at the time of the Rosewood Massacre. The daughter of Perry and Hattie Goins, she did not testify at the Rosewood hearings held in Tallahassee. She had lived in Tampa Florida.
"All of our people who died were innocent!"
Margie Hall Johnson (1909-1998)
Her parents were Mary and Charles Bacchus Hall. She is Wilson Hall's and Mary Daniel's sister. She had just turned fourteen years old at the time of the Rosewood,
Margie's Interview
"Rosewood was a great place to be a child."
Minnie Lee Langley(1914-1995)
Nine years old at the time of the attack, she live in Rosewood with her grandparents, James and Emma Carrier. She was one of the children inside Sara Carrier's home when she was killed.
At age 82
Minnie sought recompense for racist rampage and again
at age 83.Langley lived in Jacksonville, Florida, until her death in December 1995.
"Hate destroyed my peaceful hometown!"
Allenetta Robinson [Robie] Mortin (1915-2012)
She was eight years old and raised in Rose wood by her grandmother, Polly Carter, and Uncle, Sam Carter. She was represented as a Rosewood bill claimant by Attorney Richard Ryles. She had lived in Riviera Beach Florida. The second to the last survivor
remembersthe American tragedy. The Rosewood massacre
hauntsher memory. The Riviera Beach woman who survived Rosewood Massacre
has diedat the age of 94.
Survivors Memorial
Find a GraveLonnie Jefferson Carroll
Find a GraveWillie E. Evans
Find a GraveArnett Turner Goins
Find a GraveMargie Hall Johnson
Find a GraveMinnie Lee Mitchell Langley
Find a GraveRobie Allenetta Mortin
Compensation to Rosewood Survivors
“On May 23, 1994, Florida Governor Lawton Chiles signed into law House Bill 591, otherwise known as the ‘Rosewood Bill.’ A year earlier, Daryl L. Jones, a state senator from south Florida, introduced legislation that would: pay reparations to the survivors of the Rosewood incident for the trauma they endured and for the property they lost; establish a state university scholarship fund for the families and descendants of the Rosewood residents; and require the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to interview any surviving witnesses to determine if any criminal proceedings could still be pursued. Though the original version of the bill did not pass the Florida legislature, it was resubmitted the next year. There was much opposition from several legislators who claimed that since the attack on Rosewood had occurred over seventy-one years before, any claims for damages would be subjected to the statute of limitations. But the bill passed the second time around, first by a count of 74-41 in the House, and then by a tally of 26-14 in the Senate. The bill appropriated $2 million for the above-mentioned initiatives. It was determined that all known perpetrators of the crimes committed that week in January 1923 were deceased. However, compensation for property loss and/or emotional trauma resulting from the destruction of Rosewood was provided to 172 people in sums ranging from $220 to $450,000. The total amount of compensation was $1.85 million.”
House Bill 591:Florida Compensates Rosewood Victims and Their Families for a Seventy-One-Year Old Injury
RecompenseBeing Sought For Massacre
RESTORING ROSEWOOD:MOVEMENTS FROM PAIN TO POWER TO PEACE
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