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Critics worry Florida's new elections chief will make the office more partisan
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In (2)two days July Perry will be beaten, home burned down in Ocoee, FL ... thrown in jail in Downtown Orlando later on ... in (3) days October 4th, 1920 ... a “white mob” from Ocoee & surrounding parts will show up at the Orlando PD downtown “take” Mr. Perry from the Orlando Police Department (who was incapable of stopping the white mob??? bullshit) and lynched.
“On November 1st, the day before the election, with robes and crosses, the Klan paraded through the streets of the two Black communities in Ocoee late into the night. With megaphones they warned that “not a single Negro will be permitted to vote” and if any of them dared to do so there would be dire consequences.
Election Day came and at least some Blacks did attempt to vote in Orange County; however, none were permitted to enter their respective polling places. White enforcers camped out around the centers and poll workers were given instructions to deflect their attempts.
One-by-one would-be Black voters were turned away either by threats of violence or by poll workers who found their names “mysteriously” absent from the voter registration rolls. “
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https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ocoee-massacre/
“On November 1st, the day before the election, with robes and crosses, the Klan paraded through the streets of the two Black communities in Ocoee late into the night. With megaphones they warned that “not a single Negro will be permitted to vote” and if any of them dared to do so there would be dire consequences.
Election Day came and at least some Blacks did attempt to vote in Orange County; however, none were permitted to enter their respective polling places. White enforcers camped out around the centers and poll workers were given instructions to deflect their attempts.
One-by-one would-be Black voters were turned away either by threats of violence or by poll workers who found their names “mysteriously” absent from the voter registration rolls. “
Source :
https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/ocoee-massacre/
Nov. 2, 1920: The Ocoee Massacre - Zinn Education Project
More than 50 African Americans killed in the Ocoee Massacre after going to vote in Florida.
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Voter suppression was spark that ignited Ocoee Massacre. A century later, Florida’s Black voters are still facing obstacles
By DESIREE STENNETT
ORLANDO SENTINEL
OCT 22, 2020 AT 5:41 AM
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/ocoee-massacre/os-ne-black-voter-suppression-ocoee-20201022-z6kwn5xuafdevlhkvy6g6effui-htmlstory.html
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Civil Rights History Project
Voting Rights
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/articles-and-essays/voting-rights/
They dared to register blacks to vote, and the KKK killed them: A 52-year-old case is closed — unsolved
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-doj-civil-rights-20160621-snap-story.html?_amp=true
Two Murders That Ignited Passage of the Voting Rights Act
https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-murders-that-ignited-passage-of-the-voting-rights-act
By DESIREE STENNETT
ORLANDO SENTINEL
OCT 22, 2020 AT 5:41 AM
https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/ocoee-massacre/os-ne-black-voter-suppression-ocoee-20201022-z6kwn5xuafdevlhkvy6g6effui-htmlstory.html
COLLECTION
Civil Rights History Project
Voting Rights
https://www.loc.gov/collections/civil-rights-history-project/articles-and-essays/voting-rights/
They dared to register blacks to vote, and the KKK killed them: A 52-year-old case is closed — unsolved
https://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-doj-civil-rights-20160621-snap-story.html?_amp=true
Two Murders That Ignited Passage of the Voting Rights Act
https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-murders-that-ignited-passage-of-the-voting-rights-act
Voter suppression was spark that ignited Ocoee Massacre. A century later, Florida’s Black voters...
The deadly violence that forced Ocoee’s Black residents to flee the area a century ago was, at its crux, an attempt at terrorizing people into forgoing their right to vote. But even in 2020, the long legacy of suppressing the Black vote remains alive.
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