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[ausetkmt]

The 100th Anniversary of the Ocoee, Florida Election Day Massacre

The state of Florida has recently mandated a law requiring that public schools and state institutions teach the history of the Ocoee Massacre. 

What happened in Ocoee, Florida in 1920? How do the tragic events that transpired in Orange County intersect with the broader histories of the African American freedom struggle as well as today’s efforts at historical truth and reconciliation in the age of Black Lives Matter? 

Paul Ortiz will draw from his book Emancipation Betrayed as well as more than 20 years of involvement in local history initiatives in Ocoee. 

Paul Ortiz is an American historian and professor of history at the University of Florida. He is also the Director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program and has published numerous works, including Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Jim Crow South and Emancipation Betrayed. 

This event is funded by the Florida Humanities Florida Talks: At Home! program.

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Dianne Persaud

B. August 16th 1947 in Corentyne, Guyana

Ocoee, Florida

[thoughtportal]

Ocoee massacre

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocoee_massacre

[petervintonjr]

I am resharing a prior lesson (originally posted Feb. 7 of this year) and its accompanying artwork, since it has taken on new relevance in current headlines. Please recirculate and repost, as you deem appropriate:

[joe-england]

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[tomorrowusa]

Ron DeSantis and his Florida GOP machine want schools in the state to teach that slavery was beneficial.

The curriculum includes framing labor skills African Americans developed while enslaved as potentially ‘applied for their personal benefit.’ Florida’s newly adopted K-12 curriculum for African American history is drawing censure from community leaders, elected officials and the state’s largest education organization for what they complain is a glossing over of shameful chapters in America’s past. [ ... ] Critics, however, argued the curriculum — which includes framing labor skills slaves developed as potentially “applied for their personal benefit” and a disproportionate conflation of violence against Black citizens with violence by them — as a “big step backward.” “How can our students ever be equipped for the future if they don’t have a full, honest picture of where we’ve come from?” said Andrew Spar, President of the Florida Education Association, the state’s largest union with more than 150,000 members. “Florida’s students deserve a world-class education that equips them to be successful adults who can help heal our nation’s divisions rather than deepen them, (and they) deserve the full truth of American history, the good and the bad.”

According to DeSantis rubber stamp Education Commissioner Manny Diaz Jr., slavery produced a lot of great skills in people.

For pre-Civil War lessons, middle school students must be taught “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” per a new benchmark clarification.

The new DeSantis curriculum partly blames the victims of past crimes.

The curriculum also notes that high school teachings about several instances of mass killings, including the 1920 Ocoee Massacre in which a White mob murdered at least 30 African Americans for attempting to vote, should include instruction on “acts of violence perpetrated against and by African Americans.” “That’s blaming the victim,” said Orlando Democratic Sen. Geraldine Thompson, who worked to pass a 2020 law requiring instruction about the Ocoee Massacre.

Republicans apparently don't want the snowflake descendants of slaveholders and KKK sympathizers to feel sad.

The DeSantis whitewashing of history is part of his overall plan to pander to the far right in order to win the 2024 GOP presidential nomination. It tells us a lot about the current state of the Republican Party and the extremists whose opinions hold sway within the GOP.

[nittygrittydirtman]

Field Trip, Part 2: Ocoee, FL

Leaving Weeki Wachee, Joe and I drove on a four-lane divided highway that cuts through or comes very close to some of Central Florida’s smaller towns. Our goal was to reach an entrance to Florida’s Turnpike, near Orlando, so we could head southeast and then eventually get onto I-95 southbound. As we reached the far western fringe of the Orlando area, we saw a sign for Ocoee. I had become obsessed…

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[ausetkmt]

OCOEE, Fla. (AP) — A central Florida town where dozens of African-Americans were massacred and a black neighborhood was burned down almost 100 years ago is renouncing its racist past.

Ocoee city commissioners plan to issue a proclamation Tuesday acknowledging the 1920 attack on the black community in that caused African-Americans to move away for decades.

The proclamation renounces the city’s past as “a sundown town,” a place where African-Americans could be endangered if they were in city limits after sunset. The Orlando Sentinel reports the proclamation reads: “Let it be known that Ocoee shall no longer be known as a sundown city but the sunrise city with the bright light of harmony, justice and prosperity shining upon all our citizens.”

George Oliver, who this year became the first African-American elected to the Ocoee City Commission, said it’s time to let people know that Ocoee has evolved.

“If you were black, you didn’t want to go through here, day or night, but if you had to, you made sure if at all possible that you got out of town before the sun went down,” Oliver said. “That’s changed. It’s time we let people know.”

In 1920, a white mob attacked Ocoee’s black community after African-Americans attempted to vote. The mob surrounded the home of July Perry, set fire to Perry’s neighborhood and massacred dozens of black residents. The mob lynched Perry in nearby Orlando.

After the massacre, about 500 black residents fled Ocoee, leaving behind their homes and possessions. Ocoee had no black residents until the 1980, according to the U.S. census.

African-Americans now make up about a fifth of the town’s 46,000 residents, and Hispanics represent under a quarter of the population, according to the census.

Ocoee Mayor Rusty Johnson accompanied a group of central Florida residents to the April opening of a national lynching memorial and museum in Montgomery, Alabama. He said the memorial moved him.

“It sends chills down your back,” Johnson said.

Perry’s 79-year-old granddaughter, Gladys Franks Bell, said she never thought she’d live to see official recognition of the tragic event by town officials. Her then-teenage father and his siblings escaped Ocoee by hiding in woods and swampy wetlands.

“None of my family has ever forgotten,” Bell said. “It’s time for other people to remember.”

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Dianne Persaud

B. August 16th 1947 in Corentyne, Guyana

Ocoee, Florida

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[soberscientistlife]

The dark day in Florida's history escalated after one Black citizen tried to exercise his right to vote at a polling location but was turned away on Election Day.

Mose Norman, who had been part of the voter registration drive in Orange County, decided to vote in the national election on November 2. When he attempted to do so, twice, he was turned away from the polls. When Norman was driven away the second time, a white mob, then numbering over 100 men, decided to hunt him down. Concluding he had taken refuge in the home of another local Black resident, Julius “July” Perry, they rushed Perry’s home hoping to capture both men there. Norman escaped and was never found while Perry defended his home, killing two white men, Elmer McDaniels and Leo Borgard, who tried to enter through the back door. The mob called for reinforcements from Orlando and surrounding Orange County. Eventually they caught and killed Perry and hung his dead body from a telephone post by the highway from Ocoee to Orlando to intimidate other potential Black voters. Perry’s wife, Estelle Perry, and their daughter were wounded during the attack on the Perry home. They were sent to Tampa by local law enforcement officers. The mob then turned on the Black community of Ocoee. Homes and properties of Black families were scorched, burnt to the ground. At least four Black individuals were confirmed killed -- one of which was lynched, his body hanging from a tree limb for all to see.

On June 21, 2019, a historical marker honoring July Perry and others killed in the massacre was placed in Heritage Square outside the Orange County

Source: African Archives

[anarchywoofwoof]

florida now has to teach that enslaved people benefited from slavery because they learned valuable job skills. this is a real thing.

Much of the scrutiny surrounds a particular standard requiring middle school students to learn “how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” But there are also objections to lessons that classify acts of violence perpetrated “against and by” African Americans, like the Ocoee Massacre of 1920, when a white crowd burned Black homes and churches to the ground and killed Black residents in a small Florida town enraged by a Black man attempting to vote.

this is the reason that conservatives want to control school boards and local legislatures. this will be national policy in 2024 if they're permitted to exert their will.