MIAMI – Rubin Stacey was lynched on July 19, 1935. Historians say his death is the only lynching on report in Broward County.
A movie entitled Rubin was produced by his spouse and children and historians to provide as an educational possibility and a opportunity to doc a major minute in South Florida Black Heritage. The movie premiered at NOVA Southeastern College.
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Rubin Stacey was not only lynched, but he was also shot 17 situations, and tied to the again of a vehicle and dragged according to his good-fantastic niece Tenille Brown.
She claims there are a lot of stories as to why Stacey was lynched, “He went and knocked on the door inquiring for operate. She invited him in, and he cut her with a pen knife,” Brown explained. However, she also asserts there are studies that Stacey could have in no way long gone to the woman’s house at all.
Ken Cutler, a Town Commissioner for the metropolis of Parkland and a historian, was utilized in the Rubin movie. He claims the weather in the course of the time of Stacey’s murder was tumultuous.
“The Civil Rights Act did not take place until the 1960s so at the time, every thing was segregated. Blacks have been on one side of city, whites had been on the other facet of town. There was a great deal of racial pressure,” explained Cutler.
The movie Rubin was about acquiring to know who Rubin Stacey was, outside of just his tragedy.
“He was a family guy. Any person who was usually associated with relatives. Expended time with his spouse. He expended time with his son,” said Brown.
He also liked to fish. Brown states her aunt Anne Naves, lived in the residence with Stacey and was eight at the time of his loss of life. It was not something the family spoke about frequently as it introduced on a large amount of shame.
Even so, now they are speaking about it in hopes to tell the entire scope of record, particularly at a time in Florida when issues to the teachings of Black background are getting named into issue.
“This concept of seeking to rewrite what basically happened. Now is the time for persons that have an understanding of what fact is to stand up and get that truth of the matter out,” claimed Cutler.
A different vital element of this movie was the educating about what lynching is. Commissioner Cutler stated that it really is not just the hanging of an individual from a tree it can also mean tying an individual to the again of a auto and dragging them.
Ultimately those people concerned want to go on to teach despite what is happening in our point out. A two-mile extend of Davie Boulevard has been renamed Rubin Stacey Memorial Boulevard.
