Saving Black History, One Story at a Time
Return to Rosewood Bus Tour - Two Day
Tour Stops:
- Mims – Harry T Moore Museum & Gravesite
- Ocoee – Historic Marker and Mass Grave
- Rosewood – Historic Wright house & Dunn property
- Shiloh Cemetery, Cedar Key, Florida
Black Miami History Bus & Walking Tour (One Day 8am - 3pm)
Tour Stops:
- Coconut Grove
- Downtown Miami & Fort Dallas
- Liberty Square Housing Project
- Arthur Lee McDuffie Marker
- The Teach the Truth Garden
- Historic Overtown walking tour
The Heart of Black Miami - Overtown Walking Tour (1.5 hours)
Tour Stops:
- Dana Dorsey House
- Ward Rooming House
- Historic Longshoremen’s Hall
- The Iconic Lyric Theater
- Bethel AME Church
- Overtown Teach the Truth Garden
Common Tour Stops
Mims, FL
On Christmas Night 1951 a bomb was exploded beneath the bedroom of Harry T and Harriet Moore in Mims FL along the FL Space Coast. They were educators and activists. Mr. Moore was actively involved in registering blacks to vote which was why he and his wife were killed on their anniversary. A replica of the home has been constructed and will be visited at the museum that was established in Brevard County. The tour will also visit the gravesite of Harry T Moore and his wife at the LaGrange cemetery.
Rosewood, FL
In January 1923, a very cold time, a White mob attacked the Black town of Rosewood Florida, located near Gainesville, based upon the accusation by Fanny Taylor a married White woman who lived in Sumner, two miles west of Rosewood, who said a Black man assaulted her. The mob burned the town except for the home belonging to JW Wright, the only White family that lived in Rosewood. The Wrights allowed some of the victims of the attack to hide in their home until they were rescued by a train that was brought in secretly. The tour will visit the Dunn property which contains a portion of the railroad bed, the JW Wright house and the gravesites of JW Wright and Mary Wright in the Shiloh Cemetery in Sumner.
Newberry, FL
Students will visit Newberry, FL, and Lynch Hammock and learn about the mass lynchings that occurred in 1916, where as many as 6, and probably more, died during an unjust mass lynching.
Ocoee, FL
During the highly contentious elections of 1920, Julius Perry attempted to vote in Ocoee Florida located near Orlando in Orange county. After being rebuffed at the polls, Perry consulted with a federal judge who instructed him to return to the polls to get the names of the people who prevented him from voting. Perry returned with a friend XXNAME, whereupon they were prevented from voting. Within hours a mob was sent to the Perry home resulting in the deaths of two members of the mob who were killed by friendly fire as the mob fired bullets through the home. However, rumors spread that July Perry had killed two white men, which brought a mob to the black section of Ocoee where many homes were burned, resulting in an unknown total deaths. Many of the victims, mostly women and children, are buried in mass graves a few miles away from the scene of the destruction, where the tour will visit. The tour will stop at the Bill Breeze city park where a memorial marker relays the story of the Ocoee attack.
