Rosewood, Florida reparations as a public policy model for sundown towns in the United States.
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Authors
Eid-Reiner, Eric.
Issue Date
2011-11-23T15:18:35Z
Type
Thesis
Language
Keywords
Undergraduate research. , Undergraduate thesis.
Alternative Title
Rosewood, Florida reparations as a public policy model for sundown towns in the U.S.
Abstract
From 1890 to 1930, while likely thousands of racial cleansings took place in the United States,
local mayors, sheriffs, governors, and other government officials rarely intervened. They
routinely failed to protect black residents from losing their property, possessions, jobs, and
community as these citizens were violently chased out of the places they had once called home.
Such blatant government neglect of its responsibility to protect its citizens in the mostly black
town of Rosewood, Florida, in 1923, led the survivors and descendants of former residents to
seek reparations from the state in the early 1990s, which they ultimately received. This work
examines the various policy and political factors that contributed to the success of the Rosewood
reparations and analyzes the prospects for similar approaches to be taken with regard to Forsyth
County, Georgia, and Corbin, Kentucky, where the black population was forced out of more
racially diverse communities.
Description
vi, 225 pages : illustrations.
Bibliography: leaves 211-225.
Bibliography: leaves 211-225.
Citation
Publisher
Wheaton College; Norton, Mass.