103 years ago today, a mob of hundreds — perhaps thousands — of white people gather and attack the town of Rosewood, a prosperous Black community in Northwest Florida, between the Waccasassa Bay and Suwannee Sound.

Incensed by a white woman's claim of having been assaulted by a Black man from Rosewood — an accusation later discovered to have been a baseless fabrication — the mob sets fire to the town's buildings and executes somewhere between six and 150 Black people (accounts vary). The survivors are left homeless and without justice. 70 years later, the Florida state government distributes $2 million in reparations to nine survivors' families.

Until the early 1700s, this area of had been occupied by the Timucua people. The disease, violence and slavery introduced by Euro-American settlers brought an end to the Timucua.