Trivia

Though most of the film is based on true events, the film's main character, Mann, is mostly fiction creation. He is likely based on a report in the Chicago Defender a week after the massacre, claiming that a soldier named Ted Cole appeared and fought against the lynch mobs. The claim was never repeated, nor verified.

After Wynton Marsalis' score was rejected, he released his score as an album called "Reeltime".

Rosewood was located in Levy County, Florida, southwest of Gainesville, near Cedar Key.

Don Cheadle and Bridgid Coulter are a couple in real life, with children together.

John Singleton cited Schindler's List (1993) as a movie that was a major reason he sought out this specific film to direct.