Lynching memorial

The violence in Rosewood mirrored some of America's infamy of racial violence in the years after World War I. In Florida, the Black communities in Ocoee and Rosewood were stained by historic violence in 1920 and 1923, respectively.

A two-year-long project was finally unveiled this week in St. Petersburg honoring the victims of lynchings in the area.

Police in St. Johns County are searching for a marker that had just been installed as a reminder of a lynching that had taken place on the site, off...