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The Other Black Wall Streets
You know Tulsa. This episode is about Rosewood. In January 1923, a white mob burned a thriving Black town in Levy County, Florida to the ground over seven days - destroying a church, a Masonic lodge, a school, and generations of deeded Black-owned land. Eight deaths confirmed. The real number buried with the town. Florida maintained official silence for seventy-one years. The survivors carried the story in oral history, passed it to their children, and eventually testified before a state legislature that had spent decades pretending Rosewood never existed. This is the story of what Rosewood…
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