The Rosewood Incident occurred in January 1923 in Rosewood, Florida. Fannie Taylor, 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 intercourse they began an altercation. While it's unclear what it was about, it may have ended with 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 question her about how they got her. Fannie ran out of the house attracting the attention of surrounding neighbors by saying 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 word spread of what had happened to Fannie, there was a chain of vicious attacks on blacks that became massacres. John Singleton turned Rosewood into a movie, but to have the directors usually embellish the story. Singleton embellished the story with some sketchy scenes. One thing that is inaccurate about Singleton's film is that he created a fictional black character called Mr. Mann. He came to Rosewood looking for land/acres to purchase and left when he heard about Fannie's accident. Mann only returned because he heard about the killing of some blacks. Mann was an important character in the film, but every scene involving him wasn't real, because he doesn't/doesn't exist. Since Mr. Mann was fictional, when the attacks on blacks began, a woman named Beulah (Scrappie) was the one who returned to carry women and children to safety in Gainesville. His aunt Beulah Carrier heard about... halfway through the paper... about James Carrier being killed by the mob. James went to Mr. Wright for help, so Wright hid James in his house. The mob came and knew that Mr. Wright was hiding blacks, 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 graves and it was certain that the torture continued there,” (Rosewood Report 1993, p 22). Singleton's film Rosewood influenced my understanding, because Mr. Mann was present in most of the film. The man was made the 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 Rosewood Report was better because it was all true. This is my thoughts and how John Singleton's film influenced my understanding of the Rosewood relationship.