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Stunning and powerful, Like Judgment Day is the hauntingly true story of the Rosewood massacre. Michael D'Orso's compelling journalistic prose reads like the most vivid novel as he describes the earth-shattering events of January 1923 and its survivors' patient, 70-year quest for justice.When a black man was accused of attacking a white woman in a rural Florida town, a tinderbox of racial hatred was ignited. On New Year's Day 1923, Rosewood, a town of hard-working, middle-class African Americans, was burned to the bottom by an angry mob of whites. After hiding in frigid near by swamps for days, the few survivors never returned. The town's existence vanished like a mirage until 1982 whenever a local journalist - writing an article on weekend getaways - stumbled after the Rosewood secret.Narrator Richard M. Davidson's rich voice enhances D'Orso's masterful rendering of 1 of modern American history's most shameful tragedies.
