Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Bluesky (Opens in new window) Click to share on X (Opens in new window) Allen Franks was just 18 when he led five siblings hand ...

It’s been 100 years since the Ocoee Massacre, a dark and often overlooked chapter in American history. On November 2, 1920, African American residents of Ocoee, Florida, went out to cast their ...

Juárez had no idea. “I’ve never heard about it,” said Juárez, 20, of what is known as the Ocoee Massacre. After white residents terrorized all the Black residents to leave following the ...

After the Ocoee massacre, all but two of the 255 Black Ocoee residents fled, according to census records. One hundred years after her great-great-uncle was lynched during the Ocoee massacre ...

“These people were neighbors for 30 years before the massacre happened.” After World War I ended in 1918, the same trends happening nationally took hold in Ocoee, too. Black veterans returned ...

The City of Ocoee in Orange County is planning a weeklong celebration to remember the Ocoee Massacre. During the 1920 presidential election, a group of Black Floridians went to the polls.

JULY PERRY AND THE OCOEE MASSACRE OF 1920. SUMMER: WE KNOW PERRY WAS LYNCHED AND THAT OTHER BLACK RESIDENTS WERE ALSO KILLED OR THREATENED AND RUN OUT OF TOWN. BUT EVEN TODAY, MORE THAN 100 YET ...

Read full article: Ocoee community celebrates bill signing of July Perry Memorial Highway Memorial honors victims of Ocoee Massacre Read full article: Ocoee Massacre compensation scholarship ...

Now there’s a new push to produce a movie about the Ocoee massacre and the lynching of July Perry during the deadliest Election Day in American History. We talk to former State Senator Randolph ...

The Ocoee massacre and the Rosewood massacre three years later wiped out Black communities in the state as white mobs set upon the areas wreaking death and destruction, according to published reports.

It’s been 100 years since the Ocoee Massacre, a dark and often overlooked chapter in American history. On November 2, 1920, African American residents of Ocoee, Florida, went out to cast their ...