By Isabella Douglas and Zachary Carnell/Fresh Take Florida

The violence in Rosewood mirrored some of America's infamy of racial violence – including lynchings and mob attacks – in the years after World War I that included Chicago, Tulsa, Omaha and East St. Louis. In Florida, the Black communities in Ocoee and Rosewood were stained by historic violence in 1920 and 1923, respectively.