Rosewood - Region 1 DVD
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A shameful chapter in American history is powerfully dramatized in Rosewood, but moviegoers in 1997 may not have been ready for the African American equivalent of Schindler's List. And while the massacre that occurred in the nearly all-black town of Rosewood, Florida, in 1922 cannot compare in scale to the Nazi holocaust, it potently illustrates the same issues of racism and inherited intolerance that percolate at every level of human existence. An estimated 40 to 150 blacks were killed in Rosewood by an all-white lynch mob from the neighboring town of Sumner, where a white woman falsely claimed she'd been assaulted by a black m
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Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Release date: 10 September 1997
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780790732213 UPC: 085391453628
Release date: 10 September 1997
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 9780790732213 UPC: 085391453628
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