The Massacre at Rosewood Trivia Quiz

Answer: January 1, 1923

The incident at Rosewood began on New Year's Day in 1923. In the town of Sumner, an all white town where residents of Rosewood worked, a woman claimed that a black man attacked and raped her.

Answer: Francis Taylor

Twenty-two year old Francis Taylor, better known as Fannie Taylor, claimed that a black man attacked and raped her. Unbeknownst to Fannie, Sarah Carrier along with her grandchildren, Arnett Turner Goins and Philomena Carrier, saw a white man leave the house as they were nearing it. Sarah Carrier worked twice a week for Fannie, cleaning. One wonders why the sheriff never questioned Sarah or her grandchildren, since they were there.

The sheriff accepted Fannie's story at face value.

Answer: Sam Carter

The murder of Sam Carter was the beginning of seven days of terror for the residents of Rosewood.

Answer: Sarah Carrier

Sarah Carrier was murdered on Thursday, January 4, 1923. The reason she was murdered was because she dared to tell what she saw at the Taylor residence.

Answer: True

Though more than three quarters of the residents participated in the attack, documents and testimoney show that there were some who didn't believe Fannie Taylor. These residents were eventually outcasted in Sumner because many believed them to be 'Negro Lovers'. If all the residents of Sumner would have actually taken the time and consideration to actually hear what Sarah Carrier was telling them, this would never have happened.

Answer: Yes

Members of the Ku Klux Klan were in Rosewood and helped in the massacre. The only differnce here was that they didn't use their costumes that they are famous for. This is the only time the KKK murdered anyone without their costumes. Apparently they felt safe enough to do so because of all the white men that were in Rosewood.

Answer: Robert Elias Walker

Walker was the sheriff of Rosewood and Sumner. He was a young sheriff by all accounts and was probably thirty or thirty one years of age. Sheriff Walker obtained a pack of bloodhounds from Captain H. H. Henderson at Convict Camp Number 17, Fort White, near High Springs in neighboring Alachua County.

There was evidence that the manhunt for the black man who supposedly attacked Fannie Taylor was started before Walker retrieved the bloodhounds.

Answer: Lexie Gordon

Also on January 4, 1923, Sarah Carrier was murdered. Lexie Gordon was mudered as she attempted to flee into the swamps.

Answer: 200-300

Four days after Fannie Taylor's accusations, two hundred to three hundred white men converged on Rosewood. Once there, they began burning buildings and lynching innocent people.

Answer: January 7, 1923

On January 6, 1923, a train brought refugees from Rosewood to Gainesville. On January 7, 1923, a small band of white men returned to Rosewood and finished burning down the town.

Answer: They found insufficient evidence to prosecute

On February 11, 1923, the Grand Jury convened in Bronson to see if the state had a case. On February 15, 1923, the Grand Jury said that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute.

Answer: Beulah "Scrappie" Carrier

Beulah "Scrappie" Taylor had hid the children in the swamp. They remained there for five days.

Answer: Yes

In 1992, the children, now grown, gave sworn affadavits about the events of that terrifying week. Arnett Turner Goins and Philomena Carrier, the only surviving witnesses of the day that Fannie Taylor had claimed that a black man had raped and attacked her, claimed that a white man had left the Taylor house and that four hours later Fannie claimed that a black man attacked her. Arnett and Philomena have given sworn affidavits and had passed a lie detecter test.

Answer: 1992

The survivors of the massacre came forward in 1992, and told the world exactly what happened.

Answer: $7 Million

$7 million dollars was awarded to the survivors and descendants of victims of the Rosewood Massacre.