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Chuck Darwin @[email protected] · 2024-11-04 · 01:18 UTC

In what became known as the largest incident of Election Day violence in U.S. history,
the tragedy in #Ocoee stands as a stark reminder of the racist barriers Black voters faced as they attempted to exercise their basic right to vote.

But while passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the use of racist literacy tests and poll taxes to bar Black voters,
that legislation was too late to help Ocoee’s Black residents.
The majority of Black people in Ocoee in 1920 lost their homes, and as many as 60 of them lost their lives.

‘The night the devil got loose'

The violence in Ocoee was not surprising, given the white-supremacist Ku Klux Klan’s efforts to intimidate Black voters and their Republican allies before the election.

In addition to marches throughout the state, the Ku Klux Klan grand master in Florida sent a letter to Republican politician William R. O’Neal,
who was openly courting Black voters in his bid to become a U.S. senator.

The letter threatened O'Neal if he continued “going out among the negroes of Orlando … explaining to them just how to become citizens, and how to assert their rights.”

The letter concluded:
“We shall always enjoy WHITE SUPREMACY in this country and he who interferes must face the consequences.”

The local branch of the Ku Klux Klan in Ocoee also told a former judge that if any Black residents attempted to vote “… there would be serious trouble.”
https://theconversation.com/for-one-survivor-the-1920-election-day-massacre-in-florida-was-the-night-the-devil-got-loose-241545

#ocoee

Nonya Bidniss 🥥🌴 @[email protected] · 2023-10-24 · 22:40 UTC

In Sylva #NC tonight. Pretty drive today through the #Cherokee and #Nahantala National Forests. Lovely views along the #Ocoee River. I didn't get any pics but the colors are very nice.

#ocoee #nahantala #cherokee #nc

Queer Lit Cats @[email protected] · 2023-07-22 · 08:30 UTC

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Kamala Harris Reams Out Florida's Plan to Teach Kids That Slavery Benefited Black People https://jezebel.com/kamala-harris-reams-out-floridas-plan-to-teach-kids-tha-1850664834 #Jezebel #lynchingintheunitedstates #tulsaracemassacre #geraldinethompson #rosewoodmassacre #atlantaraceriot #ocoeemassacre #kamalaharris #jeffsessions #ocoeeflorida #socialissues #mosesnorman #rondesantis #paulburns #ocoee #perry

#jezebel #lynchingintheunitedstates #tulsaracemassacre #geraldinethompson #rosewoodmassacre #atlantaraceriot

Queer Lit Cats @[email protected] · 2023-07-22 · 08:30 UTC

Jezebel: Sex. Celebrity. Politics. With Teeth: Kamala Harris Reams Out Florida's Plan to Teach Kids That Slavery Benefited Black People https://jezebel.com/kamala-harris-reams-out-floridas-plan-to-teach-kids-tha-1850664834 #Jezebel #lynchingintheunitedstates #tulsaracemassacre #geraldinethompson #rosewoodmassacre #atlantaraceriot #ocoeemassacre #kamalaharris #jeffsessions #ocoeeflorida #socialissues #mosesnorman #rondesantis #paulburns #ocoee #perry

#perry #ocoee #paulburns #rondesantis #mosesnorman #socialissues

Anonymous Germany @[email protected] · 2023-07-21 · 23:07 UTC

An öffentlichen Schulen in #Florida wird den Schülern nun beigebracht, dass einige Sklaven von der #Sklaverei profitiert hätten, weil man ihnen nützliche Fähigkeiten beigebracht habe. Neue Unterrichtsstandards verlangen das. Außerdem sollen in der High School Massaker wie das #Ocoee-Massaker von 1920 mit "Gewalttaten, die von Afroamerikanern verübt wurden" in einen Zusammenhang gebracht werden.

#desantis #usa
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-florida-standards-teach-black-people-benefited-slavery-taught-usef-rcna95418

#florida #sklaverei #ocoee #desantis #usa