Florida Laws Governing Compensation and Justice for the Rosewood Massacre
- Original Title
- Florida Laws Governing Compensation and Justice for the Rosewood Massacre
- Devised Title
- Florida Laws Governing Compensation and Justice for the Rosewood Massacre
- Date
- 1921
- Creator
- Florida House of Representatives See all items with this value
- James Peters See all items with this value
- Lynn Imhof See all items with this value
- Stephen F. Hanlon See all items with this value
- State University System of Florida See all items with this value
- Charles B. Reed See all items with this value
- Vice Patricia Hansen See all items with this value
- Florida Board of Regents See all items with this value
- Maxine D. Jones See all items with this value
- Nancy Stepina See all items with this value
- Contributor
- Office of The Attorney General See all items with this value
- General Robert Butter See all items with this value
- Stephen F. Hanlon See all items with this value
- Florida House of Representatives See all items with this value
- Description
- Rosewood Massacre-related Florida laws that established legal procedures for investigating the events and compensating affected families. These statutes set the groundwork for the state’s efforts to rectify the injustices of 1923 by ensuring a formal process for recognizing the descendants' claims and preserving the history of the tragedy.
- Primary Subject
- 1900-1999 See all items with this value
- Activism See all items with this value
- Justice See all items with this value
- Civil rights See all items with this value
- Location
- Tallahassee See all items with this value
- Leon County See all items with this value
- Florida See all items with this value
- United States of America See all items with this value
- Type
- Textual document See all items with this value
- Medium
- Paper See all items with this value
- Measurements
- L:28cm x W:21.5cm
- Format
- HBCU Identifier
- MS_0001_01_B07_F8_02
- HCAC Identifier
- HCAC.FAMU.0193
- Rights
- All rights reserved. The use of any part of these objects and photographs transmitted in any form by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system without the prior written consent of MEBA is an infringement of the copyright law.
- Contributing Institution
- Florida A&M University
- Collection
- Rosewood Massacre Collection See all items with this value
- Language
- English
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- Item sets
- Florida A&M University Collection

