What comes after reparations

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🗓️ 15 May 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

In 1923, an all-white mob burned down the small mill town of Rosewood, Fla., killing at least six people and driving out black residents. Decades later, the survivors won reparations from Florida legislators, including a scholarship that allowed any Rosewood descendants to attend any of the state’s public universities. Robert Samuels reports on a conversation around the complicated legacy and effects of those reparations.

How a scholarship helped — and didn't help — descendants of victims of the Rosewood racial massacre.

Photos of the Rosewood descendants that keep a once-forgotten history alive.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post.
0:04.9	Hello, Hayo.
0:06.7	Here's the Nureesa back from the Washington Post.
0:08.8	Hi, this is Beth Ryan,
0:10.0	the Washington Post.
0:10.8	Laurie Artoni, over at the post.
0:12.6	I'm...
0:13.2	This is Post Reports.
0:14.7	I'm Martine Powers.
0:16.6	It's Friday, May 15.
0:20.8	Today, what reparations did for the descendants of a massacre,
0:28.6	and what they didn't do.
0:36.1	So, I know for last time you asked me a grand number of questions.
0:38.8	When you called me.
0:39.8	Yeah.
0:43.0	What did you want to know?
0:45.3	I wanted to know more about it.
0:47.3	And I wanted to know more about the survivors who came over here with them,
0:51.7	because their other families really are beached.
0:54.5	And we don't even talk to them, but they all came over here together.
0:58.4	This story is about a woman named Morgan Carter.
1:00.8	Rosewood is not talked about,
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