Whites Wait For Fleeing Negroes in Race Riot.
Item
- Title
- Whites Wait For Fleeing Negroes in Race Riot.
- Source
- Perth Amboy Evening News (NJ)
- Date
- 1923-01-12
- page
- 12
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85035720/1923-01-12/ed-2/?sp=12&q=%22Assault%22+%22Assaulted%22+%22Assaults%22&r=0.014,0.098,0.636,0.294,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- undetailed , racial
- Race of alleged offender
- Black
- Gender of alleged offender
- Male alleged offender
- Race of alleged victim
- White
- Gender of alleged victim
- Female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- Extralegal
- Location
-
Out of state
FL - Length of story
- 97
- Description
- Whites Wait For Fleeing Negroes in Race Riot A posse of whites is shown here. Shotguns in hand, waiting for cornered negroes. The scene of the first bloodshed in the race riots of Rosewood, Fla., in which two whites and six negroes were killed. Shooting broke out when whites tried to capture a negro who was suspected of aiding Jessie Hunter, negro, accused of assault on white girl, to escape. The whites, ready to shoot, are C. D. Hudson and C. C. Osten of Otter Creek, and A. Alford, grandfather of the victim of the alleged assault.
- Site pages
- Map of Assaults
