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Testimony of Arnett Turner Goins. Goins describes how he lived with his grandmother Sarah Carrier at the time of the massacre. Goins recalls that he and other family members, along with multiple children, hid out in the home of Sylvester Carrier after the violence in Rosewood began. Goins remembers being in the Carrier home when a mob of white people fired on the house, killing Sarah Carrier. He then describes how he escaped into the swamps. He then went via train to Gainesville where his father, George Washington Goins, lived at the time. James Peters, the Assistant Attorney General, cross examines Arnett Goins. Goins discusses the silence about what happened at Rosewood among his extended family that existed for decades after the massacre. Goind also speaks about how his family, along with other survivors, moved to Lacoochee not long after the massacre. Arnett Goins also contends that Sylvester Carrier survived the Rosewood massacre and lived in hiding for the remainder of his life. Goins elaborates on the development of the Rosewood Reunions which occurred in different places across the Southeast beginning in the 1980s.

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