ROSEWOOD (1996)

JOHN SINGLETON

Drama True Stories Blackness, Race & Ethnicity

Cast

JON VOIGHT VING RHAMES DON CHEADLE BRUCE MCGILL LOREN DEAN ESTHER ROLLE MICHAEL ROOKER JOHN WILLIAMS

Plot

1923, Rosewood was a peaceful and prosperous god-fearing black community when a white woman from a neighbouring village falsely stated that the man who brutally raped her was a negro. This film dramatises the resultant massacre and lynchings by a wild white mob. PC soap opera.