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 ...

EVERYONE IS THRILLED AND EQUALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANOTHER PLANNED MOVIE BY THE BRACY’S REGARD THE OCOEE MASSACRE. IT WAS ELECTION DAY 1920 WHEN A WHITE MOB SWEPT THROUGH THE ...

The 1920 Ocoee Massacre, also known as the deadliest election day in United States history. The under-told story about when an African-American community was attacked for using their right to vote ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

About 500 blacks lived in Ocoee in 1920, before the massacre. Ocoee had no black residents in 1940, 1950, 1960 or 1970, according to census figures. Census-takers found 29 in 1980. July Perry ...

Prominent local businessman July Perry was among the 1920 Ocoee massacre's victims. Illustration by Meilan Solly / Photos courtesy of the Orange County Regional History Center When black labor ...

The racial violence in Rosewood, which was dramatized by Hollywood in an acclaimed 1997 movie, occurred three years after the 1920 Election Day massacre in Ocoee. Ocoee had been mostly forgotten ...

IT WAS SO UGLY. >> SO UGLY IN FACT, THE GRIM ATTACK OF PERRY AND OTHERS IS NOW REFERRED TO AS THE OCOEE MASSACRE OF 1920. >> THIS WAS A GRUESOME MASSACRE. I MEAN WE ARE TALKING UPWARDS OF 50 ...