The Rosewood Incident occurred in January 1923 in Rosewood, Florida. FannieTaylor, a white woman, was married to James Taylor, but Fannie was having an affair with an unknown white man. One day, while Fannie was with her lover, after having sex, they had an altercation. Although it's unclear what the argument was about, perhaps it was over. Fannie accusing her lover of having an affair with another married woman. Fannie hit her lover from behind, so he beat her. With Fannie covered in bruises, she knew her husband would ask her questions about how they were picking on her. Fannie ran away from home, attracting the attention of surrounding neighbors, claiming that she had been beaten and raped by a "nigger." Once Sheriff Walker arrived at Fannie Taylor's house, she told him that a black man had just beaten her. After news of what had happened to Fannie spread, there was a chain of vicious attacks on black people that became a massacre. John Singleton made Rosewood into a movie, but for the directors to usually embellish the story. Singleton embellished the story with a few inaccurate scenes. One thing that is inaccurate about the Singleton film is that he created a fictional black character named Mr. Mann. He came to Rosewood looking for land/acres to purchase and left when he heard about the Fannie incident. Mann only returned because he heard about the murders of some blacks. Mann was an important character in the film, but not every scene involving him was real, because he didn't exist. Since Mr. Mann was fictional, when the attacks on black people began, it was a woman named Beulah (Scrappie) who returned to pick up the women and children to lead them to safety in Gainesville. His aunt Beulah Carrier heard about... middle of newspaper ...... James Carrier who was killed by the mob. James went to Mr. Wright for help, so Wright hid James at his house. The crowd came and knew Mr. Wright was hiding black people, so they wanted James Carrier to ask him about Jesse Hunter. “Carrier was questioned. He was probably interrogated and tortured before being taken to the tombs and it was certain that the grilling there continued” (Rosewood Report 1993, p 22). Singleton's film Rosewood affected my understanding because Mr. Mann was in the majority in the film. The man became a heroic figure, but he did not exist. I think if Singleton chose to recreate Rosewood in a film, he should have done it as it was in the story. It was a good movie, but The Rosewood Report was better because it was all true. This is what I think and how John Singleton's film affected my understanding of the Rosewood Report..