![]() ![]() Carrier worked there as the schoolteacher, while living with her husband Aaron Carrier. ![]() The town was 37 miles south-west of Archer on the main road to the Gulf. ![]() To the children, it was one of several mysterious dictates issued during childhood in the Jim Crow south.Īs Jenkins tells it, the children didn’t know why Amos ’n’ Andy was often interrupted by revving engines and calls from her father to “Go upstairs now!”, or why aunt Mahulda Carrier, a schoolteacher, fled to the bedroom each time a car drove down their rural road.Įxplanations for demands to hide came later, when Jenkins’s mother, Theresa Brown Robinson, whispered to her daughter the story of violence that befell the settlement of Rosewood in 1923. “And I would be, my feet barely touching the ground,” Jenkins, now 77, said at her home in Archer.ĭespite strict adherence to their mother’s orders, the siblings weren’t told why they should race home. ![]()
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