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Allen, James. Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photography in America. Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers, 2000.

Anonymous. “ ‘Rosewood’ tells story of how White mob destroyed a Black town in 1923.” Jet 24 March 1997: 56.

Arsenault, Raymond. “Rosewood.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Journal of American History 84.3 (1997): 1173-74.

Barlowe, Jamie. “The ‘Not-Free’ and ‘Not-Me’: Constructions of Whiteness in ‘Rosewood’ and ‘Ghosts of Mississippi.’” Canadian Review of American Studies 28.3 (1998): 31-47.

Berardinelli, James. “Rosewood.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Reel Views. http://www.reelviews.net/movies/r/rosewood.html

Bradley, Ed. The Rosewood Massacre. New York, NY: CBS Video, 1994.

Brooks, Roy L. When Sorry Isn't Enough -- The Controversy over Apologies and Reparations for Human Injustice. New York: New York UP, 1999.

Carr, Jay. "John Singleton Searches for Justice in Rosewood." John Singleton: Interviews. Ed. Craigh Barboza. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2009. 94-97.

Colburn, David R. “Rosewood and America in the Early Twentieth Century.” Florida Historical Quarterly 76.2 (1997): 175-93.

Cottrol, Robert J., and Raymond T. Diamond. "Rosewood." American Historical Review 103.2 (1998): 635-36.

Dauphin, Gary. "Ashes and Embers." John Singleton: Interviews. Ed. Craigh Barboza. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2009. 79-86.

Dauphin, Gary. “Rosewood is burning.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Village Voice 42 Mar 4 (1997): 76.

Davidson, James, M., and Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. “A Potential Archaeology of Rosewood, Florida: The Process of Remembering a Community and a Tragedy.” SAA Archaeological Record January 2008: 13-16. http://monmouth.academia.edu/gonzaleztennant/Papers/311047/A_Potential_Archaeology_of_Rosewood_Florida_The_Process_of_Remembering_a_Community_and_a_Tragedy

D’Orso, Michael. Like Judgment Day: The Ruin and Redemption of a Town Called Rosewood. New York: Grosset/Putnam, 1996.

Dean, Mensah. “The story of Rosewood; Violence in Florida is spark for film.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Washington Times 21 February 1997: C12.

Dunn, Marvin. The Beast in Florida: A History of Anti-Black Violence. Tallahassee: UP of Florida, 2013.

Dye, R. Thomas. “Rosewood, Florida: The Destruction of an African American Community.” Historian 58 (1996): 604-22.

Dye, R. Thomas. “The Rosewood Massacre: History and the Making of Public Policy.” Public Historian 19.3 (1997): 25-39.

Ebert, Roger. “Rosewood.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Chicago Sun Times 12 February 1997. http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19970221/REVIEWS/

Fisher, Bob. "’Rosewood’ probes racial violence.” American Cinematographer 78 (1997): 90-95.

Flores, Richard R. "Memory-Place, Meaning, and The Alamo." American Literary History 10.3 (1998): 428â€"45.

Flowers, Charles. “Is Singleton’s Movie a Scandal Or A Black ‘Schindler’s List’?” Seminole Tribune March 1997. http://www.seminoletribe.com/tribune/97/mar/rosewood.shtml

Gagne, Cole. "Rosewood." Film Journal 100 (1997): 100-1.

The Genocide Factor. Princeton: Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2002.

Goodloe, Trevor. “Rosewood Massacre (1923).” http://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/rosewood-massacre-1923

Guerrero, Ed. "Rosewood." Cineaste 23.1 (1997): 45-47.

Halliburton, R., Jr. "The Tulsa Race War of 1921." Journal of Black Studies 2.3 (1972): 337â€"57.

Halton, Beau. “ ‘No resentment,’ Rosewood survivors say.” Florida Times-Union 20 Oct. 1997. http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102197/2b3rosew.html

Hayes, Ron. “Rosewood massacre haunts memory after nearly 85 years.” Palm Beach Post 14 January 2008. http://www.finalcall.com/artman/publish/article_4291.shtml

Hirsch, James S. Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy . Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.

Hixson, Richard. “Rosewood Victims Vs. State of Florida.” Special Master’s Final Report, 24 March 1994. http://afgen.com/roswood2.html

Holmes, David G. “Cross-Racial Voicing: Carl Van Vechten’s Imagination and the Search for an African American Ethos.” College English 68:3 (2006), 291-307.

Johnson, Robert, Jr. “Beyond Affirmative Action: The Case for Reparations.” Race, Law, and Public Policy: Cases and Materials on Law and the Public Policy of Race (Second Edition). Baltimore: Black Classic Press, 1998. 267-99.

Jones, Daryl L. “Address to the Black Reparations & Self-Determination Conference.” http://www.directblackaction.com/roserep.htm

Jones, Maxine D. “The Rosewood Massacre and the Women Who Survived It.” Florida Historical Quarterly (Fall 1997): 193-208.

Jones, Maxine, and Kevin McCarthy. African Americans in Florida. Sarasota: Pineapple Press, 1993.

Jones, Maxine. A Documented History of the Incident which Occurred at Rosewood, Florida, in January 1923. Florida Board of Regents. 22 December 1993. http://www.displaysforschools.com/rosewoodrp.html

Jones, Maxine. Appendices â€" A Documented History of the Incident which Occurred at Rosewood, Florida, in January 1923. Florida Board of Regents. 22 December 1993.

“Kill Six in Florida; Burn Negro Houses.” New York Times 6 Jan. 1923: 1.

Levin, Jordan. "Dredging in the Deep South." John Singleton: Interviews. Ed. Craigh Barboza. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2009. 87-93.

Lipkin, Steve. “When victims speak (or, what happened when Spielberg added ‘Amistad’ to his list?”). Journal of Film and Video 52.4 (2001): 15-32.

Loewen, James W. Sundown Towns: A Hidden Dimension of American Racism. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Markovitz, Jonathan. Legacies of Lynching: Racial Violence and Memory. Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 2004.

Maslin, Janet. “A Black Man Accused, A Town Destroyed.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. New York Times 21 February 1997.

Materials on the Destruction of Rosewood, Florida. http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/fgils/rosewood.html

McCarthy, Todd. “Rosewood.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Variety 9 February 1997. http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117432969.html?categoryid=31&cs=1&p=0

McKay, Kathleen C. Hearts of Rosewood: A Novel. Greensboro: Tudor Publishers, 1997.

Newman, Richard. “Rosewood Revisited.” Transition 80 (1998): 32-39.

Ogidi, Ann. "Rosewood." Black Film Bulletin 7.3 (1999): 19-20.

"Omaha Race Riot of 1919." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omaha_Race_Riot_of_1919

Palmer, R. Barton. “John Singleton.” Film Reference. http://www.filmreference.com/Directors-Sc-St/Singleton-John.html

The Real Rosewood http://rosewoodflorida.com/

"Red Summer (1919)" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Summer_of_1919

Remembering Rosewood http://www.displaysforschools.com/rosewood.html

Rollins, Peter C. The Columbia Companion to American History on Film: How the Movies Have Portrayed the American Past. New York: Columbia UP, 2003. 214-16.

“Rosewood 1997.” YouTube Video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGfdBwqzXeA

The Rosewood Massacre (1923): The Real Truth http://s-leretseh.hubpages.com/hub/The-Real-Truth-Of-The-Rosewood-Massacre-1923

Rosewood Massacre - 1923 http://sketchup.google.com/3dwarehouse/details?mid=9d96396465ef05c855e5a68516f010d0

“Rosewood Massacre.” History Through Film. http://www.historyteacher.net/HistoryThroughFilm/FilmReadings/RosewoodMassacre-Wikipedia.pdf

Rosewood Massacre: The Untold Story. Gary Moore, Jack Smith, and David Tereshchuk. New York: ABC News Productions, 1996.

“Rosewood Reborn [1923 and after].” Listening Between the Lines. http://listeningbetweenthelines.org/html/rosewood.html

Rosewood Victims vs State of Florida http://afgen.com/roswood2.html

Rosewood, Florida Waymark http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM49HJ

Rosewood: The Killing Field. Black Reflections, Inc., 2007.

Schumacher, Aileen. Rosewood's Ashes. Toronto: Worldwide, 2002.

Shickel, Richard. “Shadows from the past.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Time 3 Mar 1997: 83.

Streich, Gregory W. "Is There a Right to Forget? Historical Injustices, Race, Memory and Identity." New Political Science 24.4 (2002): 525â€"42.

Tindall, George Brown. The Emergence of the New South, 1913-1945. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State UP, 1967.

Toplin, Robert Brent. "In Defense of the Filmmakers." Lights, Camera, History: Portraying the Past in Film. Ed. Richard Francaviglia and Jerry Rodnitzky. College Station: Texas A&M UP, 2007.

Travers, Peter. “Rosewood.” Rev. of Rosewood, dir. John Singleton. Rolling Stone 1997.

"Tulsa race riot" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulsa_race_riot

Virtual Rosewood. James M. Davidson and Edward Gonzalez-Tennant. http://web.archive.org/web/20080907122401/http://www.little-yeti.com/VRRosewood/tour.html

Weinraub, Bernard. "Stirring Up Old Terrors Unforgotten." John Singleton: Interviews. Ed. Craigh Barboza. Jackson: UP of Mississippi, 2009. 98-101.

Without Sanctuary http://www.withoutsanctuary.org/

Witt, Sandra Johnson. “The Rosewood Massacre Report: Rosewood and the Racial Violence of January 1923.” http://sydaby.eget.net/ody/emi/report.htm

Wood, Amy L. Violence. Chapel Hill: U of North Carolina P, 2011.