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Rosewood is a 1997 American historical drama film directed by John Singleton, inspired by the 1923 Rosewood massacre in Florida, when a white mob killed black people and destroyed their town. In a major change, it stars Ving Rhames as an outsider who comes into Rosewood and inspires residents to self-defense, wielding his pistols in a fight.
Feb 21, 1997 · Rosewood: Directed by John Singleton. With Jon Voight, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Bruce McGill. A dramatization of a 1923 horrific racist lynch mob attack on an African-American community.
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Feb 21, 1997 · John Singleton's "Rosewood'' re-creates the story of a shameful event in American history, the race riot by whites against blacks in 1922 in the small Florida town of Rosewood, which left the town in smoking ruin while dozens of its residents were shot, burned to death or lynched.
Rosewood, Florida, is a small, peaceful town with an almost entirely African-American population of middle-class homeowners, until New Year's Day 1923, when a lynch...
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R 2 hr 20 min Feb 21st, 1997 Action, History, Drama, Thriller. Spurred by a white woman's lie, vigilantes destroy a black Florida town and slay inhabitants in 1923. Starring Ving Rhames Jon...
Ving Rhames stars as Mann, a drifter caught in Rosewood, a town filled with racial prejudice. He ends up aiding the surviving African-Americans escape the town, with the help of a humble store owner played by Jon Voight.
