in 1920, Mose Norman, a Black man who managed to register to vote tried to exercise his rights in Ocoee, Florida. He was refused.
He took refuge with July Perry, a successful Black businessman. A white mob came to arrest them. Norman escaped, but Perry was lynched.
For July Perry’s heirs, and despite a recent plaque, the violent history of voting can’t be overlooked with the Voting Rights Act having been gutted.
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For one survivor, the 1920 Election Day massacre in Florida was ‘the night the devil got loose’
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 outlawed the use of racist literacy tests and poll taxes to ban Black voters. It came too late for Black voters in Ocoee, Florida.The Conversation
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